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Icons are overlapping in Oneiric

Bug #834254 reported by florin on 2011-08-26

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #40872: Desktop icons are allowed to overlap. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	nautilus (Ubuntu)	New	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Gnome shell allows the user to mistakenly overlap icons. It should have the very intuitive interaction design as other OS's have, not to allow user to overlap icons.

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florin (florin-arjocu) wrote on 2011-08-26:

icons overlapping Edit (1.1 MiB, image/png)

Paul Stewart (paulbrianstewart) on 2011-08-26

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2011-08-26:

thank you for your bug, that's a known nautilus issue not an unity bug though

affects:	unity (Ubuntu) → nautilus (Ubuntu)
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	Confirmed → Invalid

florin (florin-arjocu) on 2011-08-26

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status:	Invalid → New

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florin (florin-arjocu) wrote on 2011-08-26:

Sorry, it's not really obvious which package is causing a bug. As the bug is real, I guess it should be active (not Invalid) so I changed status to New. Maybe more people will realize that when it affects all the time working on desktop it's not without importance.

I've read some old talks about this bug and I really don't get it why the Nautilus (I think it belons to Gnome) team don't take it seriously as all other OS's have a different way of working with icons on desktop. A better-better-better way. As I save screenshots on desktop I always get to having overlapped icons and it never happened in Windows (no matter how old it was).

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2011-08-26:

thanks for your interest but when a bug is closed because it's a duplicate it would be better if you didn't reopen it and just looked for the already opened bug and subscribed to it, see bug #40872 in this case, we can't look for the original numbers for all the duplicates filed because it would be a day long job and no other work including bug fixing would get done