Osx Lion moves icons in the desktop

Hi All
I've found that OSX Lion has the tendency of re-arranging the icons in the Desktop. It takes everything "to the right".
Is that a bug or a feature?
We should NOT have icons on our desktop?
tx for the help

As discussed on other threads, this is very widespread.
For my solution, I did the following:
Finder menu bar > Go > Go to folder > (type) ~/Library/Preferences
There are lots of strange otherwise invisible files, but scroll down to
com.apple.desktop.plist
Drag this to the trash, and restart.
If you had a desktop picture you will have to re-set it, but the icon-moving should stop.
Why? I dont know.

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