To reproduce:
(1) Create two empty Nautilus windows, both in icon view, both in manual layout
mode. Call them "Window A" and "Window B".
(2) Create one new folder in each window. For clarity, name the one in Window A
"folder A" and the one in Window B "folder B".
(3) Drag folder B to the center of window A. It will not land where you drop it.

You can continue dragging the folders back and forth between one window and the
other to see them going in various places other than where you dropped them.
Note that the behavior of this bug is very sensitive to initial conditions -- if
you start out with an existing empty folder, its memory of past events in the
form of metadata can influence the exact behavior of what goes where when. The
fact that metadata for an old file with the same name can influence a new file
is a separate bug (bug 42199). This bug is about the fact that even when there is
no saved metadata, dropping icons does not put them where you released them.
Apparently the code is trying to use relative positions to do the right 

Beware of bugs 3402 and 3405, which might mask this bug.



------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2000-10-02 17:44:20 ----

Please also note 3387, "Copy file to desktop -> doesn't land where placed".



------- Additional Comments From pavel@eazel.com 2000-10-12 02:24:53 ----

Still have to do the New Folder, Create Link and Duplicate cases



------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2000-10-16 20:07:58 ----

Batch-assigning QA ownership of remaining bugs to eli@eazel.com



------- Additional Comments From tim@eazel.com 2000-11-05 15:10:23 ----

Verified on PR2 build of 11/05.



------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 20:41 -------

The original owner (pavel@eazel.com) of this bug does not have an account here.
Reassigning to the default owner of the component, nautilus-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.