on the desktop, an icon hides another icon

[Humphrey van Polanen Petel]

An icon can be inadvertently dragged on top of another icon so as to cover it completely causing it to all appearances be "lost".

This should not be possible.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-53.72~14.04.1-generic 3.16.7-ckt18
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-53-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sat Nov 28 13:30:20 2015
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified', 'date_accessed', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where']"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-09-08 (81 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Humphrey van Polanen Petel (hpvpp)]

Being non-technical here, I worry that I may not have reported the bug correctly. Somebody please check and correct if necessary.

upstream bug = 759078

[Andre Klapper (a9016009)]

General comment: In upstream we are not interested in bug reports about older versions like 3.10 which are not supported anymore by upstream developers, hence it would be great if reporters in Launchpad using such older versions were not asked to report this bug upstream, in order to save their time. Thanks!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

@Andre, or you could make the effort to take the feedback of your users, especially that some of the issues still apply to the current versions...

[Andre Klapper (a9016009)]

@Sebastian, or you could make the effort to check the feedback of Ubuntu users in Launchpad by confirming first that it's still a problem in 3.18, before asking Ubuntu users to spend time reporting such issues upstream. Sounds better to me than your proposal. :)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

@Andre, I do, I don't ask them to report it upstream when it doesn't seem to apply to current version ...

[Andre Klapper (a9016009)]

@Sebastian: That unfortunately wasn't clear to me from the previous comments. Thanks for clarifying (and verifying that the bug still exists)!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the desktop view has been deprecated, closing this bug