Nautilus always starts a Desktop unsorted

[Kristoffer Lundén]

See attached image. This is how it always looks for me at each login, which means I have to invoke "Clean Up By Name" and that gets pretty annoying after a while. Not to mention the bad impression it gives.

"cartman" is a SMB share on another computer, "gamemaker.nu" is a SSH connection, if that could mean anything, since one seems to be sorted alright and not the other.

Titled the bug this way because I sometimes switch Desktops by symlinking ~/Desktop to new places, and each new Desktop is always completely unsorted. This is more of a wishlist type of fix, but if it could be in the same fix everything would be excellent. Something of an auto-clean right after the Desktop has loaded.

Could probably be fixed by Bug #20284, which wants to always keep the Desktop auto-arranged, but it could also be a separate issue so I file this separately.

[Kristoffer Lundén (kristoffer-lunden)]

This is how it looks right after load, and right after Clean Up By Name. As you can see, "cartman" is below "Books" at login.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug, it's quite similar to #31236. What version of Ubuntu do you use? Do you have the issue too if you restart nautilus by "gnome-session-remove nautilus; nautilus" by example?

[Kristoffer Lundén (kristoffer-lunden)]

 > What version of Ubuntu do you use?

Sorry; I use Dapper kept updated daily. So it's the latest in repos.

> Do you have the issue too if you restart nautilus by
> "gnome-session-remove nautilus; nautilus" by example?

Yes, it behaves exactly the same.

I also tested to activate the computer icon as in bug #31236, but I don't seem to have that issue, the icon is correctly placed. See new attachment.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That upload fixes some desktop positioning issues, could you try with it?

 nautilus (2.13.92-0ubuntu1) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream version:
     - Better filename linebreaking at punctuation marks.
     - List view: If a rename moves the file in the view,
       scroll to the new position
     - Better handling of broken filename encoding for link targets
     - Some desktop icon positioning fixes
     - Browser mode: don't close window on up if current directory
       has been removed
     - Pass original files, not target files to property page providers.
       This allows property page extensions to look at desktop files
       and symlinks.
     - Various small optimizations
     - Leak fixes
     - Build fixes
   * debian/control.in:
     - updated the requirement on gnome-vfs2 according to configure

[Kristoffer Lundén (kristoffer-lunden)]

No, sorry, same issue still. I made very sure that I've got that version installed and rebooted - still looks exactly the same.