GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 532296
soft link window geometry not remembered
Last modified: 2012-08-21 14:59:57 UTC
Please describe the problem: Daily a script creates a new soft link "Today" on the desktop that links to $HOME/diary/YYYY/MM/DD. Previously (FC6), opening Today would create the window with the geometry from the old Today window. Now (F8), it opens in mid desktop (since there is no saved geometry for the new directory). This change occurred when I switched from Fedora Core 6 to Fedora 8. I do not recall the version of nautilus on FC6. Steps to reproduce: 1. Create directory ~/foo/09 2. Soft link ~/Desktop/Today -> ~/foo/09 3. Open and position window for Today 4. Close window 5. Open Today again: observe that geometry is remembered 6. Close window 7. Create directory ~/foo/10 8. Soft link ~/Desktop/Today -> ~/foo/10 9. Open Today: observe that geometry is not remembered Actual results: As stated. Expected results: Today should open with the same geometry as the previous Today window. Does this happen every time? Yes. Other information: $ nautilus --version GNOME nautilus 2.20.0 $ cat /etc/redhat-release Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) $ uname -a Linux joule 2.6.24.5-85.fc8 #1 SMP Sat Apr 19 12:39:34 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
After the first time during a given day is it remembering the size of the window? My initial guess is that it is saving the metadata for the target file and not the link. So, every day you are essentially opening a new file.
(In reply to comment #1) > After the first time during a given day is it remembering the size of the > window? My initial guess is that it is saving the metadata for the target file > and not the link. So, every day you are essentially opening a new file. That is what I believe was happening. However, at some point nautilus has returned to the previous behavior, at least in the release I'm currently using: $ nautilus --version GNOME nautilus 2.32.2.1 $ cat /etc/redhat-release Fedora release 14 (Laughlin) $ uname -a Linux minim.aaa.bbb 2.6.35.14-106.fc14.i686 #1 SMP Wed Nov 23 13:57:33 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux I have not tried this in later releases. I'm sorry I don't recall when it started working my preferred way again.
Thanks.