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Bug 587046 - [RTL] Overlapping icons
[RTL] Overlapping icons
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Desktop
2.32.x
Other All
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
: 591313 610516 611354 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-06-26 13:02 UTC by Someone
Modified: 2018-01-02 18:46 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
screenshot (25.29 KB, image/png)
2012-08-05 06:31 UTC, Amiad 		Details
screenshot of nautils 3.4.2 on clean installed Ubuntu 12.04 (770.95 KB, image/png)
2012-09-18 09:06 UTC, Rex Tsai 		Details

Description Someone 2009-06-26 13:02:18 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
When inserting a cd or a removable device the desktop icon that appears might appear over other icons (It appears in the corner) especially in Right-To-Left locales. Requiring you to move it.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Insert a removable device or a cd.

Actual results:
The icon appears over other icons in the corner requiring me to move it.

Expected results:
The icon appear below or at the end of the list of icons.

Does this happen every time?
Yes in Right-To-Left locales.
Sometimes in other Left-To-Right ones.

Other information:
Comment 1 André Klapper 2009-06-27 12:02:19 UTC 
This has not
Comment 2 Cosimo Cecchi 2010-04-17 01:53:00 UTC 
*** Bug 591313 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Cosimo Cecchi 2010-04-17 01:53:16 UTC 
*** Bug 611354 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Amiad 2010-11-03 15:51:34 UTC 
I have this bug too.
see picture: http://img5.imagebanana.com/img/p38gjiqf/_001.png

I use Ubuntu in Hebrew, and this bug very disturber.
Comment 5 Yaron Shahrabani 2010-11-03 16:01:40 UTC 
In addition to Amiad's complaint I would like to add this issue happens in 2.32 with Ubuntu 10.10.
Comment 6 ofir aviram 2010-11-05 08:03:14 UTC 
The problem still exist in 10.10 so please fix it as soon as possible.
Comment 7 André Klapper 2011-08-11 12:36:27 UTC 
[Bumping version number as per comment 5]
Comment 8 Amiad 2011-08-11 12:44:32 UTC 
The problem still happen in version 3.
Comment 9 ofir aviram 2011-08-14 00:58:30 UTC 
As far as i know this problem still exist in ubuntu 11.04 natty so please fix it because for right to left users it is a sereious disadvantage.
Comment 10 ofir aviram 2011-08-14 01:00:22 UTC 
because basiclly right to left users don't have a working auto arrange option on there desktop.
Comment 11 Pedro Villavicencio 2012-03-06 17:27:09 UTC 
*** Bug 610516 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 Behdad Esfahbod 2012-08-02 16:28:44 UTC 
Can someone attach a screenshot?!
Comment 13 Amiad 2012-08-05 06:31:02 UTC 
Created attachment 220338 [details]
screenshot
Comment 14 Rex Tsai 2012-09-18 09:04:54 UTC 
Test steps

* Login with arabic locale
$ locale
LANG=ar_EG.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=ar:en_US:en
LC_CTYPE="ar_EG.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="ar_EG.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

* create random 10 files slowly.
$ . .config/user-dirs.dirs
$ cd $XDG_DESKTOP_DIR 
$ for i in $(seq 1 10) ; do touch test-$i.txt ; sleep 1 ; done
Comment 15 Rex Tsai 2012-09-18 09:06:23 UTC 
Created attachment 224582 [details]
screenshot of nautils 3.4.2 on clean installed Ubuntu 12.04
Comment 16 António Fernandes 2018-01-02 18:46:47 UTC 
Starting with version 3.28, nautilus will not handle the "files on desktop background" feature. For better alternatives, read this blog post https://csorianognome.wordpress.com/2017/12/21/nautilus-desktop-plans/