There is already a preference in GNOME that that toggles between icons can be 
placed everywhere, and icons are snapped to a grid. The size of the grid is 
hardcoded in the source to a small value as a #define, and the grid width is 
greater than the height.
What the supporters of this bug propose is the same solution as every other big 
desktop environment has on various operating systems, including Linux. Change 
the behavior of the "align to a grid" mode of the desktop, to be like viewing 
the Desktop folder in Nautilus. The grid size should be large enough to hold an 
icon, it should be a square, not a rectangle, and at most one icon should be 
allowed in one cell. The size of the icons must be maximized to the grid size.
The "icons can be placed anywhere" mode of GNOME should stay untouched.
Come on, you have to know the proposed solution, look at KDE, XFCE, Windows 3.1 
to 7, OS X, all have this option.

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Desktop icons are allowed to overlap horribly
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/40872
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