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Bug 562594 - Icons overlap in the desktop
Icons overlap in the desktop
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 154722
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Desktop
2.24.x
Other All
: Normal trivial
: ---
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
: 647344 657390 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-11-28 17:31 UTC by Jean-Philippe Fleury
Modified: 2012-09-19 23:54 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.23/2.24


Attachments
An example of file in part hidden (24.10 KB, image/png)
2008-11-28 17:35 UTC, Jean-Philippe Fleury
Details
Hard disk icon over a folder icon (6.08 KB, image/png)
2008-12-17 22:00 UTC, Jean-Philippe Fleury
Details

Description Jean-Philippe Fleury 2008-11-28 17:31:38 UTC
Please describe the problem:
When we rename in the desktop a file with a longer name, it often hides in part the icon file that is below.

Steps to reproduce:
1. In the desktop, choose a file that is not the last in its column and rename it by choosing a longer name.

Actual results:
The icon file that is below is in part hidden.

Expected results:
The icons should be reorganized and be all visible.

Does this happen every time?
Yes, when the new name takes more space.

Other information:
I will attach a screen shot.
Comment 1 Jean-Philippe Fleury 2008-11-28 17:35:26 UTC
Created attachment 123620 [details]
An example of file in part hidden

In the left, there are 2 files in the desktop. The second file isn't hidden by the name of the first file.

In the right, there are the 2 same files in the desktop, but we see that the second is now hidden in part by the name of the first,
Comment 2 Jean-Philippe Fleury 2008-12-17 22:00:10 UTC
Created attachment 124895 [details]
Hard disk icon over a folder icon

I put another screen shot to illustrate the bug. I've mounted a partition, and the hard disk icon has appeared to the top and the left of the desktop over a folder icon.
Comment 3 Chris Hodapp 2009-08-17 03:09:27 UTC
I have experienced the hard drive mounting issue as well.  I for one argue that there should be no circumstance where an icon appears over another on the desktop, unless the desktop is full.
Comment 4 Yann 2010-03-30 03:40:07 UTC
Dear all, please see Bug 613111
Comment 5 Cosimo Cecchi 2011-04-11 16:08:10 UTC
*** Bug 647344 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Rui Matos 2011-08-26 01:36:02 UTC
*** Bug 657390 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 florin.arjocu 2011-08-26 01:41:26 UTC
Might be in the system, but I think that because it's affecting all users and 100% of the time users are working on the desktop, this should have a solution by now. It seems to be sweeped under the carpet, maybe it needs some new spirit :)



Gnome shell allows the user to mistakenly overlap icons. It should have the
very intuitive interaction design as other OS's have, not to allow user to
overlap icons.
Comment 8 Robert Roth 2011-10-27 10:22:44 UTC
This looks similar to bug 313563, maybe it's a duplicate.
Comment 9 William Jon McCann 2012-09-19 20:00:39 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 154722 ***