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Bug 589024 - View mode always changes to Icons
View mode always changes to Icons
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Views: All
2.27.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-07-19 12:19 UTC by Fernando Miguel
Modified: 2011-08-18 20:26 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.27/2.28


Description Fernando Miguel 2009-07-19 12:19:19 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
View mode always changes to Icons

Steps to reproduce:
Open Nautilus
Choose a dir
Change the view to list
press F5 or leave and rejoin the same folder:

Actual results:
it resets to Icon mode view.

Expected results:
to remember the mode

Does this happen every time?
yes

Other information:

$ apt-cache policy nautilus
nautilus:
  Installed: 1:2.27.4-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:2.27.4-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.27.4-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://darkstar.ist.utl.pt karmic/main Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Comment 1 Fernando Miguel 2009-07-19 12:19:44 UTC 
Filed downstream
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/401367
Comment 2 A. Walton 2009-07-19 13:06:11 UTC 
What version of GVFS do you have installed? Nautilus has migrated from XML-based folder metadata to a GVFS-based metadata store. If you haven't upgraded GVFS, then Nautilus may not be storing any folder metadata at all.
Comment 3 Philip Muskovac 2009-07-19 14:55:30 UTC 
I get the same behaviour.

$ apt-cache policy gvfs
gvfs:
  Installed: 1.3.2-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1.3.2-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1.3.2-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Comment 4 Fernando Miguel 2009-07-19 14:58:16 UTC 
$ apt-cache policy gvfs
gvfs:
  Installed: 1.3.2-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1.3.2-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1.3.2-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://darkstar.ist.utl.pt karmic/main Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Comment 5 Cosimo Cecchi 2009-07-19 17:09:45 UTC 
Could you please see if there's a "gvfs-metadata" process running in your session?
Unfortunately I'm not able to test it myself right now.
Comment 6 Fernando Miguel 2009-07-19 17:20:10 UTC 
$ ps auxw | grep  gvfs-metadata
1000     11442  0.0  0.0   7340   892 pts/2    S+   18:19   0:00 grep gvfs-metadata


doesnt seem to be
Comment 7 A. Walton 2009-07-19 17:21:38 UTC 
That would be gvfsd-metadata, sorry about that.
Comment 8 Fernando Miguel 2009-07-19 18:37:28 UTC 
(In reply to comment #7)
> That would be gvfsd-metadata, sorry about that.

$ ps auxw | grep gvfsd-metadata
1000     21186  0.0  0.0   7340   892 pts/3    S+   19:36   0:00 grep gvfsd-metadata


nothing either
Comment 9 Martin Pitt 2009-07-20 13:13:38 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 589015 ***
Comment 10 Martin Pitt 2009-07-20 13:16:14 UTC 
Whoops, sorry. The crashing gvfsd-metadata is indeed a dupe of 589015, and fixing that stops nautilus from always rearranging your icons on the desktop. But it does not actually fix this particular problem.
Comment 11 André Klapper 2011-08-18 20:26:32 UTC 
I cannot reproduce this anymore in unstable 3.1.4. Closing as OBSOLETE but please reopen if this is still an issue for you in 3.0.