Yes Miles, sorry, I did read your comment, but only after I posted mine.
Ijust got excited that I the new interface is less convoluted than the
last, so I finally figured out how to post a comment! You articulated
your agrument better as well.

I feel that overlapping text is amateur and ugly (see attachment). And I
agree, one thing that Windows has down pat is their desktop. If there is
one thing I think should be mimiked, it's the desktop. All the icons are
the same size (to create consistancy), and have no overlapping text
anywhere. It is neatly organized (and can be organized without auto-
arrange) because of it's "snap-to-grid" function (which also limits how
far the text can go on either side [see attachment again]).

If, as you say Miles, everyone is up in flames about stretchable icons,
then that's great, I don't mind that feature, but when icons liks XMMS
or Movie Player have icons that are bitmaps and only 8 pixels big, while
a new Adobe Reader icon is 128x128 and is in vector (or appears to be)
standing side-by-side, this is just embarassing. It happened when I was
install a fresh copy of Kubuntu Dapper on my cousin's computer. I was
trying to impress her with all the great features of Linux/Ubuntu, and
how customizeable it is, and then that happened. My face went pink.

It should be mandatory (through auto-resized) that all icons be 64x64
(or a similar squared number) and so that there is consitancy. If all
icons were SVG or a similar format, then the user could resize the image
to their liking.

Mark Shuttleworth has spoken of making true, intrinsic beauty for Ubuntu
and I believe this is a stumbling block at the moment.

If you say it's been around for years Miles, then I'm sad because I
thought it was only a 6.06 error, which create my rant when I saw it
AGAIN in 7.04 Herd 5. I guess if it's been around since before 4.10
(Warty), then I'll just have to fix it myself! Can anyone lead me in the
right direction? [Half sarcasim/Half I seriously want to learn low-level
programming and fix this (what should be a) minor problem]

** Attachment added: "nautilus_desktop-overlap.07.04.16.png"
   http://librarian.launchpad.net/7340285/nautilus_desktop-overlap.07.04.16.png

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Desktop icons are allowed to overlap horribly
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