GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 598819
Emblems are not shown for symlinked directories on desktop
Last modified: 2012-07-30 15:25:20 UTC
As I explained in the title "just on desktop" emblems for symlinked directories are not working. This is not a problem other than Desktop. I am using 9.10 beta and my Nautilus version is 2.28.0-0ubuntu7. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Oct 18 04:39:04 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: nautilus 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu7 ProcEnviron: LANG=tr_TR.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic SourcePackage: nautilus Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
Indeed I'm using 2.28.1 and I can reproduce it as long as the symlinked directories are _not_ in the Desktop themselves.
May you describe step by step how to reproduce it? I did the following and I could not reproduce it using 2.28.1: Test 1: 1. Added an emblem to a symlinked directory on my Desktop. 2. I closed the property window. 3. The emblem was still there → is working. Test 2: 1. I opened another symlinked directory in another directory but Desktop. 2. I added an emblem to the symlink, and it worked. 3. I also added an emblem to the original directory and it also worked.
I uploaded a screencast showing this problem (Gnome is in spanish, sorry). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJlMPnoQ-Iw One more thing to add is that "~/Documents" folder is pointing to /media/Informacion (which is mounted, and in another partition), so it's a symlink too. Maybe this is important and it prevents to reproduce it. Thanks
Some updates. This problem occures if those directories are NOT on the same partition which our distro is installed. The ones which inside the root (/) are working fine. An other issue is that the porblem is not limited with emblems. If you try to set custom icons to those symlinked directories, same thing happens.
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. However, you are using a version that is too old and not supported anymore. GNOME developers are no longer working on that version, so unfortunately there will not be any bug fixes for the version that you use. By upgrading to a newer version of GNOME you could receive bug fixes and new functionality. You may need to upgrade your Linux distribution to obtain a newer version of GNOME. Please feel free to reopen this bug if the problem still occurs with a newer version of GNOME. Note: the emblems functionality has been removed from nautilus. The nautilus extension at https://github.com/agonzalezro/gnome3-emblems restores this functionality. Please report bugs there, if you encounter any