The nautilus view is deprecated, closing that bug, also the new
component doesn't have that issue
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This is my last report:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/108
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Yes, @giannione that is the link. I will report a bug, too. At least to
annoy Gnome people, I have so little expectations of them to actually be
helpful.
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The most annoying consequence of this bug happens when you mount a new
drive whose icon overlaps with the existing ones, forcing you to
rearrange your desktop.
How can we report on gnome bugzilla? Is this the url?
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/
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When I last reported this on Gnome Bugzilla, they almost laughed at me.
That was years ago. Maybe we should flood them with this bug, so they
would know there are lots affected.
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Launchpad couldn't connect to GNOME Bug Tracker.
(what does this mean?)
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[Desktop icons are not aligned in the horizontal grid]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1323075
[Desktop icons should have vertical align grid and exact size]
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530430
[Gnome lost icons position on the desktop]
https://bugs.launchpa
This problem is still present in ubuntu 17.10, eleven years after the
bug was created. How can this be solved? Is there a similar bug in the
gnome bug tracking tool?
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upstream duped several bugs to the popular gnome-bugs #313563 (most
active thread over the years), then duped that to even-more-ancient
gnome-bugs #154722 now.
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I see this in quantal live session: the "Install Ubuntu" and "Examples"
icons overlap by default, making the text illegible.
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Still on 12.04 Donno
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Still seeing this bug in the latest Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 2 (64-bit).
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Its frustrating to see bugs like these.
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 3:14 AM, florin <40...@bugs.launchpad.net>
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> Please also post a bug report on Gnome bugzilla, maybe if we are more and
> more, they might realize this is not a minor bug.
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.c
@TheMarquis
Please also post a bug report on Gnome bugzilla, maybe if we are more and more,
they might realize this is not a minor bug.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=562594
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We've had this shit for 8 years now, this reeks of corruption.
I wouldn't be surprised if somebody is paying off high placed
developpers to divert manpower to other things and maintain small but
important flaws.
This bug is one of the biggest newbie turn-offs I know about.
Microsoft would lose m
Still experiencing this bug of desktop icons stacking/overlapping on the
latest daily build of Ubuntu Precise 12.04.
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While I realize this is an upstream issue, I can't believe there's not
an Ubuntu patch even if upstream devs are unwilling to fix this.
Still seeing this same old bug behavior on Oneiric 11.10 with gnome 3.
The fact that this carried over from gnome 2.x.x shows a serious lack of
attention to usabl
@Jim
I propose to flood Gnome teams with this bug, as they don't read the Ubuntu
input.
The bug I've filed seems to be a duplicate of this one:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=562594
What is completely surprizing is that only a few people wrote there,
like people don't care about how
Folks, here is my dos centavos, dva kopekie, two cents, or whatever. . .
.
Note: Distro used is Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
1. Allowing physical icons to overlap is just plain messy and un-
professional.
Most of the places I have worked for had a bug-rating from 1-4, 1 being
"hotter-than-hell" and 4 bei
This is a very old bug and it still is in Ubuntu 11.4, updated to last
packages. Does anyone know if there will be some solution? I think
copying Windows way is a good interaction design.
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I almost erased my 750gb external hard drive because of this bug. There
were some pictures on my desktop that I wanted to delete, so I drew a
box around them and dragged them to the trash can. Turns out the
mounted partition's icon was hiding under them.
Had I been a lesser computer guy, I most
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See this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6512055&postcount=6
"I think ive found a solution in gconf-editor: apps > nautilus > icon-view,
then check default_use_tighter_layout. this solves the horizontal overlap. the
vertical overlap problem still remains since the align grid gets sma
*I really don´t know why so many complication about something so simple.
I´ve tested the same issues in other operating systems and nothing happened
in this sense. I did not take a look at the sources codes, but I suppose
that when the desktop or window is divided by grid cells, only one object or
I did some more work on this recently, particularly relating to icon
bounding boxes. I tried to find any bugs by adding code that generated
frames through Cairo, and it seems the bounding boxes are actually
correct, as shown in my screenshot. It seems the actual issues arise in
collision detection
Oh, oh!!! Just another thing. With my grid thing, if you try to dnd big
icon where there are not enough free cells, dnd could silently "abort".
If a user want to complicate his life with unreasonable big icons, it's
his own responsability, I think. Bye.
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Too bad this bug is still around, after 4 (four) years... Ubuntu 10.04, both
bugs still here. I think the 2 separate bugs (new "auto-generated" icons
overlapping and the missing auto-align to grid) are related each other. And I
don't think any "too-complicated-problem" answer could be accepted.
well this is truly annoying as it's on Linux desktop, not server. other
system user will be annoyed to see the miss on their desktop
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I found the patch was already discussed in Bug #20284 comment 10. This
issue may be a duplicate of the referenced bug #12454, which was fixed
and re-appeared?! Funnily the regression pops up every some months, as
the upstream bug is from 2001!
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Could you please specify the expected behaviour of the patch? I have
applied it to the latest nautilus-elementary codebase, and icons are
still allowed to overlap. I have tried moving icons over each other with
keep aligned checked and unchecked, and they overlapped, as before. When
checking keep a
> I subscribed the guy from the nautilus-elementary ppa just now -
maybe he/they are willing to incorporate this patch for easier testing.
the right way is to open a nautilus-elementary bug task, I've done that
now
> But ... any idea, why the patch is not incorporated into upstream?
not sure, s
Hi,
I subscribed the guy from the nautilus-elementary ppa just now - maybe he/they
are willing to incorporate this patch for easier testing. But ... any idea, why
the patch is not incorporated into upstream?
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Hi all,
I just stumbled on this bug report after switching to Lucid from Fedora
where I had my own patch for this issue (
http://clarens.caltech.edu/wiki/2009/06/01/19.27 ).
Does some kind soul have a Lucid PPA with Bill's latest patch that I can
test?
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For Maverick, I would prefer to see a much more comprehensive set of
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able to have a regular grid (not simply sets of vertical columns that
are centered within the column, but not horizontally aligned). I hate
the variability
Since this patch has been forwarded upstream and we're awaiting upstream
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my 2 cents:
how about the following: text is limited as outlined by Miles Lane and
Sandehera earlier (in 2008)
however for icons regardless of size or shape two rules apply. Stuff created
new on the desktop ie automatically created icons for removabe hardware,
downloaded files etc donot o
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Actually, the realignment approach was what I did with the modified
first iteration of my patch. As you suggest, the code involved for this
is incredibly simple. Also, after investigating the behavior of Windows
XP, a similar method is used there. I do, however, disagree with the
"realign every 2 s
you know, theres probably a command that is run everytime you click on
the "clean up by name" option in the menu. why not put that in a
scheduler program to run every 2 seconds? hal and devkit daemon already
run every 2 seconds so its not an extreme concept. for example open htop
in a terminal and
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Nautilus seems to remember where it last placed the icon for some
volumes. When a file (or another volume) already sits at that spot,
there's an overlap. This, however, does not seem to happen for all
volumes.
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I've built nautilus with Bill's patch in my ppa, totally unsafe to test,
but feel free to.
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https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=601469
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I think that this bug isn't such a big issue, but that bug #364001,
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Wait a moment, this never is going to be solved?
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Just to elaborate on the pic above, when "Align to Grid" is checked, you
can't overlap icons by dragging one over another. This makes it
different from "Keep Aligned" in Nautilus.
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This desktop bug has been around for too long; I would not consider it
low priority. Here's a pic of Windows XP's desktop options; you can have
overlapped icons or icons aligned to a grid.
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In https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/364001
I've reported that desktop icons are placed by _default_ on top of one another.
I claim that this is one bug, and the fact that users are allowed to overlap
their icons is a separate one.
That bug has been marked as a duplicate of
If I get accepted for Google Summer of Code and Ubuntu oversees, I'd
like to get a mentor to tackle this job.
Go go year-one CS students!
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Definitely a usability bug, even if it is small. If it takes a user an
extra 5 seconds or minute to find something on their desktop then I
think it's definitely something that needs to be addressed. It's a shame
that after three years and seven duplicate bugs it still hasn't been
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Miles and Wladston, complaining about economics in a bug report is
counterproductive and impolite. if you want a programmer or OS vendor to
fix a particular bug, please contact them directly. If you have
suggestions on how to improve the Ubuntu bug-tracking process in
general, try the ubuntu-qa mai
Miles, same here. Filling bugs really doesn't count at all. They should
discourage new users to do so, it only adds frustration ...
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I gave up filing bugs against Gnome years ago for this very reason. I
have much older bugs than this that have been mothballed. Because there
are so fewdevelopers who are writing the gnome code, they are always
overworked and thier priorities are determined by personal interests or
thier corporat
Once again, I'm amazed how problems can be discussed for over 3 years
with several ideas and propositions without leading to an improvement or
even a solution. ... because there is always the 1 single user (type) or
edge case which could possibly lead to loss of some freedom and
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This bug has affected me ever since I started using ubuntu beginning
with 7.04. When drives get mounted, or a cd is inserted, the icon more
often than not, gets placed on top of an existing icon. Not a deal
breaker, but annoying.
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Of course, I completely agree that this is an important usability bug,
or I would not have filed it years ago. I would love to see it fixed
sometime. Let me know if you need more ideas about possible fix
implementations.
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I would say make a variable grid if people would like to keep variable
sized icons, meaning make a grid that is 32x32, 48x48, 64x64, 128x128
and then the default sorta-grid that Nautilus has right now...
That's how "KDE, XFCE, Windows 3.1 to 7, OS X" all have it as Pelládi
Gábor said.
I know this
I would like this fixed grid layout to include setting all icons to a
fixed width and height (there could be a small, medium and large
setting, or there could be a slider that allows a flexible selection of
what this consistent icon size would be). Using the fixed grid layout
would not require los
Pelladi, that wouldn't correct the problem of having icons at the exact
same location. However, what you suggested along with not allowing icons
to be placed in the exact same spot should solve the problem.
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Technically, in nautilus-icon-container.c, I would like to change
#define SNAP_SIZE_X 78
#define SNAP_SIZE_Y 20
to
#define SNAP_SIZE_X 128
#define SNAP_SIZE_Y 128
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> because you can have variable icon geometry
Then disable variable icon geometry in "keep aligned" mode, for the
better good.
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for me this is as simple as
1. place the draged icon where it was dropped
2. if there is already one or more icons that ocupy the space that will be
required by the dragged icon, make space on the surrounding of the final
dragged file (moving all the icons on the area if required) to acomodate t
> Why not? Why can't we have a static grid in "keep aligned" mode? I say
that we should have a static grid in "keep aligned" mode.
because you can have variable icon geometry
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Why not? Why can't we have a static grid in "keep aligned" mode? I say
that we should have a static grid in "keep aligned" mode.
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> Come on, you have to know the proposed solution, look at KDE, XFCE,
Windows 3.1 to 7, OS X, all have this option.
the microsoft os have a fixed icon geometry consitent over the desktop
though no?
I'm not against the option I just say we need a clear definition of the
behaviour we want, ie how m
There is already a preference in GNOME that that toggles between icons can be
placed everywhere, and icons are snapped to a grid. The size of the grid is
hardcoded in the source to a small value as a #define, and the grid width is
greater than the height.
What the supporters of this bug propose
Maybe disabling differently-scaled icons is the first step to improving
the Desktop's usability. If icons are scalable, but all scale to the
same degree, we can always draw a uniform grid to align them to.
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We could also try to abandon any idea of a grid and consider each icon
as a separate square. If another square is placed on top of it, that
square will instead be placed at the bottom corner of the square it was
placed on top of. If there isn't any room at the bottom (mind Feynman),
place the i
having a grid with lines and columns is easy when you have a standard
geometry for icons but if those can be scaled randomly how would that
work exactly?
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Excuse me if the previous comment was meant to be directed towards
someone specifically, but since it sounds general I'll attempt to answer
it.
When an icon is dragged and dropped, the first thing that needs to be
checked is whether or not the cursor was directly over another icon. If
it was, the
Could the design come with recommendation about what should happen when
you dnd an icon near of an another one for example?
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those comments are not very useful, it's not really an easy code nor
clear what the behaviour should be on the grib when you try to overlap
icons, should text be able to slightly overlap and if not why not?
should the cursor jump when you try to dnd an icon on an another one or
should it move it? h
i couldn't believe this bug is almost 3 years old, they have low
resources, i agree, they have some major things to fix i agree, but dude
come on, this bug was posted and acknowledged more than three years
back, very frustrating.
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yes but only when "Keep Aligned" is checked
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If that's true Sebastian, about nautilus having a grid, then what I
think would be a suitable workaround for this bug is an option that not
just aligns to a grid when clicked, but forces icons to persistently be
aligned to a grid, thus forcing new volumes to not overlap or new
folders to be hidden
but if ms windows does it, what is the problem in here?
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the bug settings are correct, the issue is only a cosmetic one and
nautilus has a grid, you can select the option to align on the grid in
the menu and see how it's working. the bug is read but the ubuntu
desktop team ressources are limited and ubuntu is not writting this
software so you should bett
This issue was the first "bug" I noticed with Ubuntu when I started
using it over a year ago. Desktop icon placement and grid manipulation
is not a low priority issue. Newer users (and many veterans) get a lot
of value out of having desktop icons to represent work-in-
progress...otherwise, why ev
small, but really obvious bugs like these ruin the reputation of the
rest of ubuntu. the first things people will notice when using ubuntu
should work perfectly, and it should be the top priority to have them
work perfectly.
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Pelládi Gábor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
It is clear that the concept of a desktop grid is an idea that many users want
and are familiar with. Every major desktop environment defaults to that. And it
shouldn't be hard to implement, as nautilus file manager already organizes
items in a grid.
There is no use case when a user wants to hav
disappointed...still not fixed in intrepid!!! what the hell?!
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...and, when i insert a dvd, some flash drives, and an sd card, they
should all NOT be in the exact same place on the screen! x_x
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look, i dont know what those gnome developers are smoking down there,
but i want some. just look at my attached screenshot. nobody WANTS their
icons to overlap like that, okay? thats just disgusting! your computer
should be automatically organized neatly so that you can focus and find
and do things
i agree with Jessie Lawrence it is true, it gives ubuntu a bad name, i
am using hardy heron 8.04.1 and this problem persist, please fix it, I
observed the same problem when I sticked two removable media (a usb hdd
and a usb-stick) into the usb ports and when I mount my windows xp
partition, Ubuntu
look i dont really care how but i just want the gnome dudes to remake
the way desktop icons are placed on the desktop, and soon (like no later
than gnome 2.26). really obvious bugs like these give linux a bad name.
im using 8.04
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This would probably need to involve the metafiles. I am guessing if
somehow there is a way of listening for changes on the users'
file://.../Desktop.xml file see what the changes are and if it is newly
added then set a new position for the item. Followed by sending a
notification to Nautilus.
Cou
I'm not sure if it's related, but I can't get desktop icons in 8.04 x64
(with default of 2 workspaces) to stick in a certain position between
logins. My 4 NTFS drive icons (auto-mounted) are lined up horizontally
in bottom right hand corner on logout. Next login, 2 of them have moved
to upper fight
Forgot URL:http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/3272/
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There is also a Brainstorm idea related to this...as of July, 2008 it
has over 300 votes. Come on, lets get this fixed!
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No, it basically means that it is a genuine bug and has all the
information necessary for it to be looked at by a developer. It is not
being ignored by developers. Also note that the priority is set low ('A
cosmetic/usability issue that does not limit the functionality of an
application'). The deve
Just out of curiosity (since I don't expect this will get fixed ever),
does setting this to "Triaged" mean that it will be ignored by
developers for the next release, or does it have some other
significance?
Thanks very much,
Miles
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