Large files placed on desktop makes gnome unusable

[dobee]

Place a huge file on desktop like 2GB video files makes system unusable, nautilus might crash and the right click desktop menu does not popup.

[Vish (vish)]

Thank you for bringing this bug to our attention.
Does this problem persist in Karmic? Kindly test this in karmic and report back,Papercuts are minor issues that exist in Karmic

A paper cut is a minor usability annoyance that an average user would encounter on his/her first day of using a new installation of Ubuntu 9.10.

For further info about papercuts criteria , pls read > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut

Don't worry though, This bug has been marked as "incomplete" ONLY in the papercuts project.

This seems to be a genuine bug.
For resolution of the bug, kindly identify the projects affected and assign the bug to that project, otherwise the devs of the concerned project might not be notified of this problem. For more about finding the right package> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage.

[dobee (roblouw)]

No sorry, I'm using jaunty, maybe someone can test it on Karmic.

thanks

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[dobee (roblouw)]

OKay tried a backtrace but nautilus has crashed, seems that working with big files like video can cause a crash, maybe video preview is to be blamed and should have a size limit for preview.

[Vish (vish)]

@dobee:
Video thumbnail generation does cause errors when large videos are placed in the desktop. But , it has more to do with the integrity of the video file, type , completion and several factors.

Is this crash for a file already saved or are you having this problem while using bit-torrents> Bug #79030
If it is for the latter the workaround is either turn off thumbnail preview[from Nautilus browser Edit menu> preferences > preview tab] or save the files to folder other than the desktop.

Either way this is not a trivially fixable issue , Hence not a papercut.
For further info about papercuts criteria , pls read > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.