Suggestion: Snapping grid for dashboard

[fuzzewuzze]

Maybe its the ADHD in me, but not having a grid that i can snap my text or items to in order to ensure they are aligned properly bugs me.

I'd like to recommend some type of snapping grid, or a static grid to align objects manually.

[prash3r]

i would vote against this. technically you have a snapping grid with the precision of 1 pixel. if you want to align using this you can always just find the cbpi_dashboard_{n}.json and change the coordinate numbers if your urge to alignment is too much to bear.

problem with a snapping grid would be with any custom svg or even the included svg files and elements that the pipes would never align on the snapping grid. for example the image for a valve has its pipe attachment at an offset while the pipe attachment on the pipe is not offset so alignment would be even worse to achieve. "the snapping grid wouldnt know where the pipe attachment is displayed in the (custom) image so it would not be able to snap to pipes". To solve this the complexity just skyrockets and we should not do it, its fine like it is.

Imagine these two images snapping to the grid on the left just like displayed here:

if you can imagine them aligned to the center you see it wont work either and to the right wouldnt work either. snapping this is complex.