Bug#413993: nautilus: Does not notice files saved to Desktop

[John Goerzen]

Package: nautilus
Version: 2.14.3-9
Severity: important

I noticed yesterday that Nautilus does not notice files saved to the 
Desktop.  Icons do not appear on the Desktop for them, and even 
opening a separate window to the Desktop does not show files.   Ctrl-R, 
however, displays them.

/home is mounted over nfs4 on these machines.

After some experimentation, I learned that:

* if I touch a file in ~/Desktop, no icon appears

* if I rm a file in ~/Desktop that had already appeared on the desktop,
  its icon disappears immediately

further debugging shows that nfs4 is sending modify events for touch, 
but not create events like other filesystems do.  (The file is being 
created local to nautilus).  I think that nautilus needs to respond to 
modify events and treat them as create if it isn't already aware of the 
file.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (99, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  desktop-file-utils         0.11-1        Utilities for .desktop files
ii  gnome-control-center       1:2.14.2-7    utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  libart-2.0-2               2.3.17-1      Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.12.4-2      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0               2.14.0-3      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                      2.3.6.ds1-13  GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libeel2-2                  2.14.3-3      Eazel Extensions Library (for GNOM
ii  libesd0                    0.2.36-3      Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libexif12                  0.6.13-5      library to parse EXIF files
ii  libgail-common             1.8.11-4      GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgail17                  1.8.11-4      GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4                2.16.1-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                1:2.6.0-4     library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.12.4-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2         2.14.3-2      Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0                2.16.0-2      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0          2.14.0-2      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.14.1-2      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0             1:2.14.2-6    GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.8.20-7      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnautilus-extension1     2.14.3-9      libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.3-0.1  libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.14.8-5      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                   1.10-3        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2                 2.14.4-2      SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libstartup-notification0   0.8-2         library for program launch feedbac
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.0.3-5     X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                    2.6.27.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii  nautilus-data              2.14.3-9      data files for nautilus
ii  shared-mime-info           0.19-2        FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa

Versions of packages nautilus recommends:
ii  desktop-base                  4.0.0      common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  eject                         2.1.4-3    ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
pn  fam                           <none>     (no description available)
ii  libgnomevfs2-extra            1:2.14.2-6 GNOME virtual file-system (extra m
ii  librsvg2-common               2.14.4-2   SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  nautilus-cd-burner            2.14.3-8   CD Burning front-end for Nautilus

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