Created attachment 5606 how it currently looks Icons in the grid should align to the bottom, so the text is aligned horizontally parallel. I've included a screenshot of how it looks now. It's quite messy.
http://i.imgur.com/qnSGPCy.png is what it will look like in 4.12. Is that better?
(In reply to Eric Koegel from comment #1) > http://i.imgur.com/qnSGPCy.png is what it will look like in 4.12. Is that > better? yes, thank you! I don't mean to be annoying, but still better would be like Thunar does and center the icon vertically, like such: http://imgur.com/XGma1do
Yeah, it will hopefully look like that in 4.14 when we go to GTK3 as I'd like to just use a GtkLabel rather than doing it with a custom widget. Having said that, someone mentioned they wanted to look into this issue not too long ago so it may still get fixed for 4.12.
I am not the one who promised a fix, but the following commit resolves the remaining alignment issue: http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/commit/?id=7f39f313895f4678f06f24519eab5486371f9360