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Bug 654811 - GNOME Shell: inconsistent behaviour when dropping icons over a workspace in the Activities overview
GNOME Shell: inconsistent behaviour when dropping icons over a workspace in t...
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.14.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
: 700387 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-07-18 06:36 UTC by Philippe
Modified: 2020-04-05 12:28 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.13/3.14


Description Philippe 2011-07-18 06:36:05 UTC 
Hi,

You'll find attached a little video showing the bug.

Test case:
- No Nautilus instance is launched,
- Go to the Activities overview and pick the Nautilus icon. Drop it on an empty workspace. It opens there. Great.
- Now pick the icon again and drop it again on an empty workspace. It doesn't open there. It opens on the active workspace.

I don't really know if it is a GNOME Shell bug or a Nautilus one (in conjonction with GNOME Shell). In fact, I've tested it with terminals instead of Nautilus instances. It works fine with terminals: they always open in the workspace they've been dropped on.

The video shows this with Nautilus and with the terminal.
In fact, I would expect every app to open in the workspace the icon has been dropped on.

Spec: Fedora 15, GNOME 3.0.1, Nautilus 3.0.2-1.fc15 (x86_64, given from the 'Add/Remove Software' tool).
Comment 1 Philippe 2011-07-18 06:41:23 UTC 
The recorded video is too big (4 Mo). 
I have to go to work  ;-). I'll see what I can do about that later if the test case is not enough.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Comment 2 Philippe 2011-07-18 18:53:56 UTC 
This bug seems to be a duplicate of 642684.
Nautilus not being a KDE app, I suppose the observed behaviour has nothing to do with QT.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 642684 ***
Comment 3 Philippe 2011-08-01 18:57:17 UTC 
Bug reopened and affected to the nautilus project.

As said in bug 642684 by Malan Bouchet-Valat:
- this is not a duplicate of bug 642684,
- here it works when no window is opened, and only fails otherwise. So that's a specific bug in Nautilus under GNOME 3.0.x (at least).
Comment 4 António Fernandes 2013-05-15 16:59:58 UTC 
*** Bug 700387 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2013-09-23 08:33:50 UTC 
Confirmed with 3.8.2.
Comment 6 Bengt 2014-03-19 23:39:05 UTC 
Confirmed with 3.10.2.
The erroneous behavior is probably connected to the Nautilus handling desktop setting, since it works if I switch this option off.
Comment 7 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2014-11-30 14:57:11 UTC 
Still present in 3.14.1. Any chance to get it fixed one day?
Comment 8 António Fernandes 2020-04-05 12:28:09 UTC 
Moved to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/1438