When moving, item disappears temporarily

[Philip Paquette]

Binary package hint: alacarte

When moving an item to the same folder, the item being moved disappears for about 1.5 seconds and then reappears at the correct place. This delay is too long and a user might think that the operation won't be done. Therefore, the item shouldn't disappear (or it could but for no more than 0.25 seconds)...

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. I Cannot reproduce this problem, it doesnt disappears here, it just take a second to move it but it doesn't disappear, tested with Gutsy. May you try to reproduce it with it?

[Philip Paquette (pcpaquette)]

Tested with gutsy... It disappears for about 0.75 seconds...

[Philip Paquette (pcpaquette)]

screencast available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbLDN-mDsGc

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

This bug was nominated for Gutsy but does currently not qualify for a 7.10 stable release update (SRU) and the nomination is therefore declined.

According the the SRU policy, the fix should already be deployed and tested in the current development version before an update to the stable releases will be considered. With 7.10 now released, that policy applies to this bug. See: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

The bug is not being closed as work will continue on fixing it for the next release, Hardy Heron (8.04). If the state of this bug should change such that it qualifies for the SRU process, please contact the person who originally declined it and ask them to re-evaluate it. To help improve the state of this bug see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToTriage

[Antti Kaihola (akaihola)]

In Lucid with alacarte 0.12.4-1ubuntu, a menu item still disappears for almost 2 seconds when dragging it to the same or a different folder.

Also, dragging and dropping doesn't move the item but makes a copy (even when dropping to the same folder).

When dropping to the same folder, this makes it look like the item was deleted, and after 2 seconds the user is surprised with two copies of the item.

When dropping to another folder, the item disappears and the source folder is shown for 2 seconds. This feels like the user could continue working with that folder. Suddenly the destination folder is shown and the item is there. It's surprising that a copy of the item is has now re-appeared in the source folder as well.

I get the about 2 second delay on my Dell Mini 9 (Inspiron 910) with an Intel Atom N270 @ 1.60GHz.