relative position of icons in a group keeps changing when dragging them around

[Omar Abdul'Azeez]

You can easily test this by setting up 2 or more icons on the desktop in any way then moving them in such a way that one of the icons will be moved to the spot where another icon currently is, but that other icon is also being moved by the same action to another empty spot.

Behaviour: icons that are moved to the spot described above will stay in place

Note: it has to do with the order the icons are moved so if you try moving icon 1 where icon 2 currently is and they are both moved correctly, try to move them so that icon 2 is moved where icon 1 is and it will have issues

Ubuntu 21.10
Extension 20-0ubuntu3

[Omar Abdul'Azeez (omar-abdulazeez)]

After further investigation... it doesn't seem to be exactly what i thought it was. It seems to be that when dragging around the lowest icon in the selection everything else keeps getting a bigger gap between the dragged icon and itself and that's why I thought the top icon remained in place when dragging the bottom icon to a lower position... it just happened to gain a gap that put it in it's previous position

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

At first this seems to work fine in 22.04 (much newer version of desktop-icons-ng), but then I could get it to fail if I dragged a group by a folder in the top left of the group.

Please try the latest version by booting this from USB:

  http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/

If the problem is still present then please report it to the developer at:

  https://gitlab.com/rastersoft/desktop-icons-ng/-/issues

although it might be the same issue as:

  https://gitlab.com/rastersoft/desktop-icons-ng/-/issues/193

[Omar Abdul'Azeez (omar-abdulazeez)]

Just tested it out, it still happens. I attached a video this time.

I also reported it where you suggested.

https://gitlab.com/rastersoft/desktop-icons-ng/-/issues/208

[Omar Abdul'Azeez (omar-abdulazeez)]

This should be fixed with this merge request: https://gitlab.com/rastersoft/desktop-icons-ng/-/merge_requests/269

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Fixed in gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng 39-2ubuntu1.