Is there a way to have the little icon widgets on the n810 desktop snap to a grid? I have been trying for an hour to get these things to line up by using the stylus, and I can't because they do not stay where I release them, and it's driving me freaking bonkers.

Help, please.

i have a feeling that they don't stay where you drop them because they are snaping to a grid. drives me mad.

it, of course shouldn't matter , but my obsessive compulsive side has to have them aligned.

Yes, the problem you are having is precisely because the desktop does have a snap to grid feature which you can't turn off, or tune. There was some discussion in bug #2639 about the snap to grid feature, predictably the Nokia guys maintain they are right and we are wrong when we find it fricking annoying and are unable to put our desktop widgets precisely where we want them.

Aha! I was looking at the LEFT edge of the widgets (specifically, Google, the clock, and that little box that always says "boingo" or "Your OS2008 site is ready"). I moved them both again, and looked at the RIGHT side, and after two or three tries, I was able to get the RIGHT side to line up.

Which is, I suppose, better than nothing.

Thanks!

Please comment against the bug if you would like the ability to at least temporarily disable snap-to-grid or even increase/decrease the size of the grid - the "one size fits all" Nokia mentality is beginning to do my head in.

Getting the applets to line up is indeed a pain, but it would at least be mitigated with some sort of "locking" mechanism so that I don't accidentally move or resize the applets when I'm not trying to do so. Kind of like the old "edit mode" in OS2006.

(Fortunately, from the text of the bug, it sounds like they're working on this.)