Moving an icon on the launcher implies locking it

[Andrea Corbellini]

Steps to reproduce:
1. Suppose that Gedit and Firefox are not locked on the launcher.
2. Open Gedit and Firefox.
3. Move the Gedit icon above/below the Firefox one.

What I expect to happen?
The Gedit icon should be above/below the Firefox one, and nothing else should have changed.

What happens instead?
The icon is correctly moved, however it is also locked.

To be clear: with 'locked' here I mean that right-clicking the icon shows "Unlock from launcher", i.e. when I close Gedit, its icon is still on the launcher.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: unity 6.12.0daily13.02.08-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-6.13-generic 3.8.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-6-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 23d4ad9b5457fd302024f47052e863ca
CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
CompizPlugins: [core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
Date: Sun Feb 17 17:54:05 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-10-17 (489 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-02-13 (4 days ago)

[Nekhelesh Ramananthan (nik90)]

I cannot find the bug report, but this is actually an intended feature and not a bug. The reasoning was that if the user moved the launcher icon, he most probably wants to lock it for easy access in the future. Again maybe someone else can add the link to the other bug report I am referring to.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Randy (rscragun)]

This is, in fact, not a duplicate. The users here see the "solution" to the supposed previous bug as a bug. A solution to the bug in this report might be to develop an option to choose which behavior occurs.