Comment 198 for bug 44082

You now what, I'm finally sick of it. This bug, and the associated saga behind it, is absolutely ridiculous.

Me, personally, I lodged a ticket for this bug back sometime in 2006. I was quite enthusiastic about doing my bit to help improve Ubuntu. It's now been more than four years since I originally put this bug in. It was labelled a duplicate of all these others, so I was put into the mailing list for them as well.

For four years, I have received email notifications as people discussed the bug. Sometimes it was once every few weeks. Sometimes it was a few a day. Most of the time I just deleted them, but I never had the heart to label them as spam (nor could be bothered to remove myself from the mailing lists).

I have no doubt these emails/comments amount in the hundreds. Discussing the complexities of solving why a bunch of icons swap their order when you reboot. That's it. Four years later, I've gone through many desktop computers (though have kept the same laptop).. and through all 11 major releases of Ubuntu in this time, it has never been fixed, and still annoys the shit out of me in the latest version of Mint I installed a few days ago.

But the most incredulous rant inducing thing is not that the bug hasn't been fixed (Windows has plenty of irritating issues that have plagued it since 95 right to 7), but that people can discuss it for four years with hundreds of comments and neither fix the problem or even get any closer to fixing it. It is a damning indictment of the Ubuntu community - something that can, and does do great things, but also wastes a huge fuck-ton of time.

So in essence, you all waste a huge fuck-ton of time. Would love to see this fixed once and for all in Meerkat. But it won't be.