[Bugs] #381 NORM: Neighbourhood view icons should be placed in a spatially repeatable way

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#381: Neighbourhood view icons should be placed in a spatially repeatable way
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    Reporter:  garycmartin  |          Owner:  marcopg    
        Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  new        
    Priority:  Normal       |      Milestone:  0.86       
   Component:  sugar        |        Version:  Unspecified
    Severity:  Minor        |       Keywords:             
Distribution:  Unspecified  |   Status_field:  Unconfimed 
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 Right now the neighbourhood view is disappointingly random from machine to
 machine, reboot to reboot, or even just over time as the view (seemingly
 randomly) refreshes. Now Sugar 8.4 has just broken all the AP colours to
 be of some new set(network manager, ssid reporting changes?), which is
 really a great loss of utility and identity; but not withstanding that
 unfortunate brick wall in the face, I'd like to suggest that AP x,y
 placements (and all other neighbourhood icons) are based on identity as
 well, so that you can quickly learn where to expect resources to be
 spatially in the neighbourhood view. The placement does not have to be
 100% accurate, perhaps first attempt then somewhere random, but ideally a
 blocked placement would slide until it found a nearby empty location.

 P.S. I resolved something similar with my SOM label layouts: Roughly...
 where by I place labels one by one (from most important to least), if it
 collides it takes the collided's x,y and looks around N, S, E, W locations
 (+random jitter factor). If still no free space, increase random jitter
 factor and try again. Worst case (for me) falls back to a label overlap,
 for neighbourhood view it would be 'any random free space'.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/381>
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