GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 700072
Desktop view cache inconsistency in Overview
Last modified: 2013-05-10 15:41:52 UTC
I am running GNOME Shell 3.6.2 in Fedora 18. I have enabled file manager to handle the desktop via GNOME Tweak Tool installed again via Fedora 18 repositories itself. When I rearrange my desktop icons to be in a different location, they look fine in desktop view. However, when I switch on Activities view or the Dash view, the overlay of the desktop view in the background shows icons in the original position (prior to the rearrangement). From my understanding, GNOME Shell caches the desktop view as an image perhaps and loads it as the overlay background when Overview is activated. So this part right now is failing, that is to say the caching is not done correctly and hence the above description of the problem. This is visually annoying too. Thank you.
Created attachment 243773 [details] Desktop view with icons that have been moved from original position
Created attachment 243775 [details] Desktop view with icons in previous position in overlay background when Activities view has been enabled
Are you using any extensions? Or any meaningful errors in ~/.cache/gdm/session.log? The expected behavior is to never show desktop icons in the overview (after all, you can't interact with them) ...
Hello, Florian Thank you for the reply :) (In reply to comment #3) > Are you using any extensions? No, I am not using any extensions. The inconsistency is reported straight off GNOME Shell that comes with Fedora 18. > Or any meaningful errors in > ~/.cache/gdm/session.log? I did not what to grep for in the above mentioned file and so I have pasted it's entire contents here for your perusal: http://fpaste.org/11486/ > The expected behavior is to never show desktop icons in the overview (after > all, you can't interact with them) ... Yes but that isn't happening. I think this should be reproducible if you "tweak" your settings with GNOME Tweak Tool? Thank you.
(In reply to comment #4) > Yes but that isn't happening. I think this should be reproducible if you > "tweak" your settings with GNOME Tweak Tool? No, I can only confirm that it works correctly on GNOME 3.8 / Fedora 19 :-) But given that the handling of the background has changed completely between 3.6.x and 3.8.x, that's no indication of anything really ...
> No, I can only confirm that it works correctly on GNOME 3.8 / Fedora 19 :-) OK. > But given that the handling of the background has changed completely between > 3.6.x and 3.8.x, that's no indication of anything really ... Where is there "no indication of anything"? Are you saying in 3.8.x you do not see this inconsistency? Who can I approach to test if this bug is reproducible? I understand it's recommended to use the recent stable version of GNOME but older versions such as 3.6.x *are* being shipped with popular distributions. I think this bug should be investigated and fixed. Thank you.
This is a known nautilus bug, so I'm closing this duplicate, but be aware that it's unlikely there will be a fix for 3.6 at this point. Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. (For the record, the right behavior here is to never show desktop icons in the overview, no matter how you tweak your config, and that's what we have in 3.8 and later) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 686943 ***
Thank you, Giovanni for the clarification!