Clasic desktop: folders and archives in desktop view

[nosolosw]

Hi there,

I use my dell-mini 12 with Dell defaults SO. In "Clasic desktop", my desktop view is showing the contents of "/home/myuser" instead showing the contents of "/home/myuser/Desktop". I guess it is a bug because it's not the default behaivour of UNIX SO.

I like to have a desktop without any contents, how I could do it?

My system:

$ uname -a
Linux myhost 2.6.24-19-lpia #1 SMP Mon Nov 3 15:25:26 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

I use GNOME as desktop in a dell mini 12"

[Nicola Ferralis (feranick)]

I cannot replicate this bug on mini 9. My Desktop view shows /home/user/Desktop/

Have you made any configuration changes? Do you see this in a freshly installed ubuntu for the mini?

[Brian Chidester (brianchidester)]

Hi amaneiro, to supply us with the information we need to properly deal with this bug please use the following template when reporting bugs.

Build Version/Date:
Environment used for testing:

Summary:

Steps to Reproduce:

Expected result:

Actual result:

[nosolosw (nosolosw)]

Brian, could you bring me an example of template filled? I have doubts about what I should write in the first two fields: "Build Version/Date" & "Environment used for testing"

[Brian Chidester (brianchidester)]

Not a problem. For the build version what is most important is whether or not you are using the customized Dell version of Ubuntu (which you already noted). Environment is the machine you are using, include the bios version and any other information about your physical machine you think is relevant. The rest of the template is pretty straight forward, describe the problem you are seeing, tell how someone else might be able to do it on their machine, say what you think should happen and then contrast that with what actually happened. Basically the more information everyone has about the bug the easier it is for people to target the problem and fix it.

[nosolosw (nosolosw)]

I hope this help to resolve this bug.

Build Version/Date:

   $ uname -a
   Linux myhost 2.6.24-19-lpia #1 SMP Mon Nov 3 15:25:26 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

   $ gnome-about
   gnome 2.22.3, build 07/09/2008

Environment used for testing:

  $ biosdecode
  # biosdecode 2.9
SMBIOS 2.5 present.
        Structure Table Length: 1364 bytes
        Structure Table Address: 0x000F24A0
        Number Of Structures: 40
        Maximum Structure Size: 145 bytes
ACPI 2.0 present.
        OEM Identifier: DELL
        RSD Table 32-bit Address: 0x3F6BB434
        XSD Table 64-bit Address: 0x000000003F6BB480
BIOS32 Service Directory present.
        Revision: 0
        Calling Interface Address: 0x000FDC80
PNP BIOS 1.0 present.
        Event Notification: Not Supported
        Real Mode 16-bit Code Address: E6FF:3953
        Real Mode 16-bit Data Address: 0040:0000
 16-bit Protected Mode Code Address: 0x000F9955
 16-bit Protected Mode Data Address: 0x00000400

Summary:

I use my dell-mini 12 with Dell defaults SO. In "Clasic desktop", my desktop view is showing the contents of "/home/myuser" instead showing the contents of "/home/myuser/Desktop". I guess it is a bug because it's not the default behaivour of UNIX SO.

Steps to Reproduce: turn on the computer

Expected result: in Desktop view the contents of "/home/myuser/Desktop" or any if the directory doesn't exist.

Actual result: In Desktop view is showed the contents of "/home/myuser/"

[Nicola Ferralis (feranick)]

I am not sure if this applies, but what is the language settings you are using? For non-English version the "Desktop" actually takes a different name (i.e. "Scrivania" in Italian). This may be related to the fact you don't see the Desktop...

[nosolosw (nosolosw)]

thanks for the tip, but I use the system in "en_US.UTF-8"

[Chris Wayne (cwayne)]

Marking as incomplete until this can be reproduced.

[Brian Chidester (brianchidester)]

How do you know that it is displaying the folder instead of the desktop?

[nosolosw (nosolosw)]

It seems to be a GNOME well-known error: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/151576

Posted here just to keep tracking on it. I don't know which is the policy ruling the bugs management: maybe could be a good idea mark this bug as closed as I found out the original source or problem. Could someone do that?