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kanishou	2009-09-29 , 16:24
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Originally Posted by pelago

I agree with the OP. Although free placement is sometimes useful, it would also sometimes be useful to snap icons to a grid. For example, on the Windows desktop Microsoft changed the default from Windows 200 and earlier of free placement to align to a grid in Windows XP and later, presumably due to usability testing telling them that people preferred the cleaner look. Obviously things might be harder on Maemo 5 due to widgets being different sizes...

In one case you have icons of similar size (lots of them), in the other case you have a small number of elements of very different sizes in a small space. Those are very different circumstances.

The OSX dashboard doesn't have a grid by the way, and it's more comparable.

If you want to align a large number of bookmarks, contacts, or shortcuts, what you can do is to just add them one after another, which will automatically align them in a nice pattern. Moving a widget to another homescreen does the same thing. With a bit of patience, you can probably use this trick to get any layout you want, by filling some space with other widgets (as the moved or added widget will align itself neatly wherever there is enough free space).

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