GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 82400
desktop and the filemanager view of the desktop should use separate metadata
Last modified: 2009-04-22 01:06:33 UTC
I use home as the desktop. Sometimes it's nice to have a stretched icon for the trash or use a stretched text file as a todo list. however i do not think these files should appear stretched in the fm view since the desktop is a pretty special view, and this is sort of unexpected. I would expect files in the fm not to be stretched like they are on the desktop.
There's a bigger issue here, basically with the exception of custom icons, the desktop and the filemanager view of the desktop should use separate metadata. This way manual layout on the desktop will not affect manual layout in the file manager view of the desktop. (and yes i think this should apply regardless if a user is using $home or .gnome-desktop as their desktop)
*** Bug 104482 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
As a result of this bug, (as copied from my duplicate filing) the following procedure is particularly crippling: 1) Open largely populated desktop directory in a window. 2) Resize the window to its minimum size. 3) Select "Clean up by name" 4) Close window, and restart nautilus. Expected behavior: Desktop remains useful Observed behavior: Desktop icons are fit to a canvas the width of the window from step 2, often proceeding to be placed far below the visible screen. Might this particular case be justification for increasing the severity of this bug a big, since it can lean to a largely useless desktop?
Increasing severity to Normal to reflect the bad cases that can come from this, updating version to reflect GNOMEVER2.2. It sounds to me like any complete solution to this bug should also probabbly take into account bug 106599 , which refers to problems involving the desktop size in relation to X's Rotate and Resize extension.
Still in 2.22. These 3 bugs all seem quite tightly related, and all quite old: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47943 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82400 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106599
I can't duplicate this one under 2.26.x any more. Marking as fixed, please reopen if you can find a way to reproduce.