Bug 1389906

Summary: nemo does not safe the position of desktop icons
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: customercare
Component: nemoAssignee: leigh scott <leigh123linux>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 24CC: fedora, leigh123linux, miketwebster
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Last Closed: 2016-10-31 09:20:32 UTC Type: Bug
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Description customercare 2016-10-29 12:49:58 UTC
Description of problem:

nemo by default sorts icons on the desktop a->z on the left side of the screen.

If icons get moved to a new positon, which worked in F23 ( upgraded to 24 today ),
the new position is only temporary until nemo gets restarted, system reboot etc.

Conculsion, ist does not safe the position of desktop icons.

BIG PROBLEM to impress Windows users with such a bug on the Desktop :(


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

nemo-3.0.6-1.fc24.x86_64

Comment 1 leigh scott 2016-10-29 13:16:30 UTC
(In reply to customercare from comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> 
> nemo by default sorts icons on the desktop a->z on the left side of the
> screen.
> 
> If icons get moved to a new positon, which worked in F23 ( upgraded to 24
> today ),
> the new position is only temporary until nemo gets restarted, system reboot
> etc.
> 
It works ok here, do you get the same issue if you use a new account?



> Conculsion, ist does not safe the position of desktop icons.
> 
> BIG PROBLEM to impress Windows users with such a bug on the Desktop :(
> 

I don't give a damn about what M$ users think :-)


> 
> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
> 
> nemo-3.0.6-1.fc24.x86_64

Comment 2 customercare 2016-10-31 09:13:26 UTC
1) another installation with F24 safes its icons. looks like something went wrong while updating the system from f23 to f24.

2)  desktop-metadata is overwritten entirely with the following, anytime an icon is moved.


.config/nemo/desktop-metadata :

[directory]
nemo-icon-view-keep-aligned=false
nemo-icon-view-layout-timestamp=1477904749
nemo-icon-view-tighter-layout=false

[computer]
nemo-icon-position=64,22
icon-scale=1
nemo-icon-position-timestamp=1477904749
monitor=0

[home]
nemo-icon-position=64,102
icon-scale=1
nemo-icon-position-timestamp=1477904749
monitor=0

[trash]
nemo-icon-position=63,909
icon-scale=1
nemo-icon-position-timestamp=1477904749
monitor=0
------------------------------------------------------------------------

The rest of the icons is autopositioned => sorted by alphabet


c) that attitude doesn't help :D