GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 90958
unresponsive nautilus view when menu editing
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
hey there, I'm not sure if this will really tell you much..but after messing around with menu editing, a nautilus view becomes unresponsive - ie. accepts the drag, but doesn't update anything. To reproduce - Drag desktop into applications-all-users:/// [creates sub dir in $prefix/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders/applications-all-users] Drag desktop into applications:/// [creates stuff in ~/.gnome2/vfolders] now delete stuff in ~/.gnome2/vfolders/applications and remove entries in $prefix/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/vfolders/applications-all-users try and drag and drop another desktop file - it fails. I tried with and without editing the vfolder-info files too - same difference.
Can you get a stack trace of that, Glynn? I think Alex was looking at something similar on Monday- I have no idea what came of that, though.
Tested on sun's beta2 build4 - I've tried this but I can't drag anything into applications-all-users:/// - I keep getting an error dialog saying "Access Denied" To recreate I created a launcher for gnome-calculator on the desktop - opened nautilus and displayed applications-all-users:/// - dragged the gnome-calculator icon from the desktop to nautilus and the error dialog is displayed.
Shane: you have to be root to add things to *-all-users:.
Trace? Glynn, Shane?
Shane?
hiya luis, sorry for the delay in comments - i've just tried this as root - started nautilus as root, went to applications-all-users:/// and dragged a gnome-terminal launcher from desktop. at first it all seems to go ok, the launcher appears to be copied to applications-all-users:/// but after quitting as root and restarting panel there is no sign of gnome-terminal as a menu item on Applications - also when I checked in applications-all-users:/// gnome-terminal is not there. am i doing it wrong? is there something i am missing? cheers
I can't duplicate this at all. Doing what you describe works as expected (all without running FAM). Possible reasons for you seeing this behavior is if the newest commits had some effect, or if you had dragged the same launcher to applications: and then deleted it. This would cause the same launcher dragged to applications-all-users: to not appear in applications:. I can't duplicate the last thing you mention at all... things which I create/rename/delete in applications-all-users: are persisted correctly. Closing since this bug has drifted off course, and because i can't duplicate... if you're still seeing this behavior, please create another bug and be sure to include any debugging output displayed on the terminal where you ran nautilus.