ISO testing: "Examples" folder and "Install Ubuntu 11.10" icons overlap each other on the desktop

[Colin Ian King]

ISO testing: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20110901/oneiric-desktop-amd64.iso

Testcase: Install (entire disk) http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Install/DesktopWhole

After booting to the desktop, the "Examples" folder icon and "Install Ubuntu 11.10" icon on the desktop are layered on-top of each other, which is messy and possibly confusing. Attached is a screen shot of the bug.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report. I confirm this problem on a 1024x600 display

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

strangely is doesn't happen every time.

[Colin Ian King (colin-king)]

I can confirm it doesn't happen every time too.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Setting the Oneiric task to Won't Fix since this would require the ISOs to be rebuilt.

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/940929

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I haven't been able to make this happen in a VM for testing. My best guess was that it might be possible to trigger this by making sure that those two .desktop files have identical mtimes, but that doesn't seem to trigger it for me. Perhaps it's also resolution-dependent, though, as something like this would explain why you don't see this every time.

In any case, as far as I know, casper has no direct control over this; it just drops some files into place in /home/ubuntu/Desktop/. nautilus is responsible for drawing the desktop, and anything we do in casper would at best be a workaround. Reassigning over to nautilus and the desktop team.

[Swâmi Petaramesh (swami-petaramesh)]

That's not only live ISO testing. I've been having this very problem on my (1024x600) netbook since Oneiric (or was it Natty ?) and it's still there in Precise Beta :

- Right after login, I always have the 3 topmost icons on my desktop OK, while the lower-end icons are all "piled" on top of each other.

- I usually right-click the desktop then "sort icons by name", that fixes the issue... until newt login where the mess is back.

So that's definitelly not a live-CD issue, but a more general Ubuntu desktop issue.

[Giovanni Tornatore (gianni-tornatore-71-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello!

I have tested on live usb persistent precise-desktop-amd64.iso 20120318 c15c06ee3e1a7606cfd3c950bb9025a7

For copy files on the desktop, the icons are overlapping.

I think, nautilus has issue

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

It occurs on Precise and different hardware I used for Oneiric with a resolution of 1366x768 (96dpi)

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu localized ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://localized-iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/838714

[Carla Sella (carla-sella)]

It happened to me testing while carrying out a live usb persistent key test on iso http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20120419.1/precise-desktop-amd64.iso, after rebooting to verify the history of firefox was kept (as it says in the test case) I found the two icons overlapped.

[Carla Sella (carla-sella)]

It happened again testing iso http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20120606.2/quantal-desktop-amd64.iso of Quantal alfa 1.

[Carla Sella (carla-sella)]

This happened again on testing Quantal daily iso: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20120809.1/quantal-desktop-i386.iso on a live USB non persistent key, test: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/219/builds/20579/testcases/1303/results.
The first time you boot the live USB persistent key, everything is ok, when you reboot you get the overlaped icons.

[Giovanni Tornatore (gianni-tornatore-71-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello, I have tested Edubuntu amd64 20121211 (md5sum:- 55c0d1196032c280c018f75c22dc5c5d *raring-dvd-amd64.iso), on live usb persistent.

This bug is confirmed!

[dino99 (9d9)]

This is not seen on Precise nowadays

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I had a similar issue with today's daily yakkety image but opened a new bug for it: bug 1611955.