Bug#549985: nautilus: Symlinks on desktop do not stay in their positions

Ulrik Sverdrup ulrik.sverdrup at gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 20:12:35 UTC 2009


Package: nautilus
Version: 2.28.0-2
Severity: normal

In Nautilus 2.28, symlinks on the Desktop do not stay put. Everytime I
login they are spread everywhere chaotically even under other (streched)
icons.

According to Alex Larsson (on irc), this is due to nautilus using
symlink target's metadata, not the symlink's itself (you also see the
symlinks on the desktop using their target's emblems).

My desktop is crammed, and the symlinks used to be packed in columns,
now they appear randomly everywhere (can be that bug is aggravated by
lots of desktop mess; but I promise, it's only junk that is spread
around, my folders and symlinks are (were) neatly ordered!


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.2-ulrik
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  desktop-file-utils          0.15-2       Utilities for .desktop files
ii  gvfs                        1.4.0-2      userspace virtual filesystem - ser
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.26.0-1     The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbeagle1                  0.3.9-1      library for accessing beagle using
ii  libc6                       2.9-25       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                   1.8.8-2      The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.82-2       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexempi3                  2.1.1-1      library to parse XMP metadata (Lib
ii  libexif12                   0.6.17-1     library to parse EXIF files
ii  libgail18                   2.18.0-1     GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.26.2-3     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.22.0-1     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libglib2.0-data             2.22.0-1     Common files for GLib library
ii  libgnome-desktop-2-11       2.26.1-1     Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.18.0-1     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                     2:1.0.5-1    X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnautilus-extension1      2.26.3-1     libraries for nautilus components 
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.24.5-1+b1  Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libselinux1                 2.0.85-4     SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  libsm6                      2:1.1.1-1    X11 Session Management library
ii  libtrackerclient0           0.6.95-2     metadata database, indexer and sea
ii  libunique-1.0-0             1.0.8-1      Library for writing single instanc
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.2.2-1+b1 X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                     2.7.5.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1                 1:0.9.4-2    X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  nautilus-data               2.28.0-2     data files for nautilus
ii  shared-mime-info            0.60-2       FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa

Versions of packages nautilus recommends:
ii  app-install-dat 2009.06.06               Application Installer Data Files
ii  consolekit      0.3.0-4                  framework for defining and trackin
ii  desktop-base    5.0.5                    common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  eject           2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-6 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii  gnome-mount     0.8-2                    wrapper for (un)mounting and eject
pn  gvfs-backends   <none>                   (no description available)
ii  librsvg2-common 2.26.0-1                 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  nautilus-cd-bur 2.24.0-3                 CD Burning front-end for Nautilus
ii  synaptic        0.62.9                   Graphical package manager

Versions of packages nautilus suggests:
ii  eog                           2.26.2-1   Eye of GNOME graphics viewer progr
ii  evince [pdf-viewer]           2.26.2-2   Document (postscript, pdf) viewer
ii  gv [pdf-viewer]               1:3.6.7-1  PostScript and PDF viewer for X
ii  mpg321 [mp3-decoder]          0.2.10.6   mpg123 clone that doesn't use floa
ii  totem                         2.26.3-1   A simple media player for the GNOM
ii  tracker                       0.6.95-2   metadata database, indexer and sea
ii  vlc [mp3-decoder]             1.0.1-1    multimedia player and streamer
ii  vlc-nox [mp3-decoder]         1.0.1-1    multimedia player and streamer (wi
pn  xdg-user-dirs                 <none>     (no description available)

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