icons are disappearing after choosing another language for gnome

[hejkki]

Binary package hint: nautilus

If i log in with for example Finnish language, and then i log off, change the language to english or something,..
it asks me if i want to change the folder names (from finnish to english in this case).

After renaming, when i try to move the things in my desktop a few pixels or something, they are disappearing, and appears again after re-login.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 16 22:39:32 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: nautilus 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu5
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.42-generic
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:3263): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:3365): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:3381): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (gnome-panel:3362): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -4 and height 24

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, your crash report is either missing or challenging to deal with as a '.crash' file. Please follow these instructions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be dealt with by the automatic retracer.

 If you are running the Ubuntu Stable Release you might need to enable apport in /etc/default/apport and restart.

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 If you are using Kubuntu or Xubuntu you can file the crash using /usr/share/apport/apport-qt --crash-file=/var/crash/_my_crash_report.crash in a terminal - where _my_crash_report.crash is the crash you would like to report.
 I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.

[hejkki (heikki-kniivila)]

No, there is no crash, i can't find you a crash file. but it is a buggy feature.

the files are disappearing one-by-one after you drag-and-drop them inside the desktop
i think it is showing the old desktop there (old language before the desktop folder rename) and it notices that it is not there.
So it should reload the new desktop with the new renamed name after renaming the names :)

[hejkki (heikki-kniivila)]

by trying to reproduce the bug i think you know what i mean.

[hejkki (heikki-kniivila)]

Also a video available on this bug:
http://dyn.fi/crash/icons-disappearing-nautilus.html

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

it's really a corner case, you seem to be changing the directory which is used for the desktop view there

[hejkki (heikki-kniivila)]

well, it is a default feature of ubuntu that has the bug.
if someone changes the language, it WILL ask you to rename the folder names (desktop also) after login (in the login screen you choose the language)