GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 380659
New content dropped on desktop is not placed according to cursor position
Last modified: 2008-04-08 22:10:31 UTC
Please describe the problem: When you drop new content to the desktop (ie. drag&drop text from gedit to desktop, drag&drop image from firefox to desktop), the position of the new icon (image file, text file) is not same as the mouse cursor position, it is created in upper left corner instead. This is very confusing. Example: I have a lot of icons on my desktop. I drag&drop image from firefox right into the middle of my desktop. But the image is placed completely elsewhere. Damn, where is my image? Did I drop it? Or didn't I? Confusing... It also happens, when you right-click on desktop, and choose Create document->Empty file. The new empty file should be created on the exactly same place where I clicked, not somewhere completely different. Steps to reproduce: 1. start some application (gedit, firefox) 2. drag content to desktop Actual results: icon is placed somewhere (I suppose always leftmost and upmost) Expected results: icon should be placed exactly where you dropped content Does this happen every time? yes Other information:
Bug 47944 (In reply to comment #0) > It also happens, when you right-click on desktop, and choose Create > document->Empty file. The new empty file should be created on the exactly same > place where I clicked, not somewhere completely different. For this part (i.e. creating new files/folders near cursor position) you may want to cc yourself to bug 47944.
still an issue in gnome 2.20
still an issue in gnome 2.22
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 364126 ***