Bug 251792

Summary:	Disabling show_desktop in /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop also disables right-click.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Chris Moller <cmoller>
Component:	nautilus	Assignee:	Alexander Larsson <alexl>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Chris Moller 2007-08-11 09:47:32 UTC

Disabling the show_desktop checkbox in /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop
in gconf-editor also disables the desktop right-click menu (the one that usually
shows "open terminal,"  "run command," etc.) but, worse, re-enabling the
check_box doesn't get the right-click menu back.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-desktop-2.19.6-1.fc8 on a rawhide machine and gnome-desktop-2.10.0-5 on an
old FC4 machine.  (I'm assuming it's a gnome-desktop failure, but, just in case,
the gconf-editors involved are gconf-editor-2.18.0-1.fc7 and
gconf-editor-2.10.0-5 respectively.)

How reproducible:
100% on two of my machines.


Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Start gconf-editor
2.  Expand Apps
3.  Expand Nautilus
4.  Open Preferences
5.  Click the show_desktop checkbox. (The mounted-filesystem icons disappear.)
6.  Right-click on the desktop--no menu pops up.
7.  Click the show_desktop checkbox again.  The icons do not reappear (I just
noticed that.)
8.  Right-click on the desktop again--still no menu popup.
  
Actual results:
Both the desktop right-click response and the mounted-filesystem icons seem to
be permanently disabled by turning off show_desktop and cannot be re-enabled by
turning show_desktop back on.


Expected results:
Turning show_desktop off probably shouldn't disable the right-click response in
the first place--all, I assume, it should do is kill the icons--but certainly
re-enabling it should undo whatever disabling it did.


Additional info:
I'm only guessing this is a gnome-desktop problem.  It could be a gconf-editor
problem or, for that matter, some other problem altogether.

Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2007-08-11 19:57:22 UTC

Happens in rawhide, too.

Comment 2 Chris Moller 2007-08-13 14:15:59 UTC

It appears that turning the "show_desktop checkbox" back on actually works, but
only after rebooting the machine, or perhaps by otherwise somehow restating some
app (nautilus?)

Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2007-08-13 14:42:45 UTC

sure, if you restart nautilus, it picks up the current setting.

Comment 4 Alexander Larsson 2007-08-29 09:08:54 UTC

Not having a menu on the desktop when nautilus isn't handling the desktop isn't
really a bug. How could it do anything on the desktop when told not do do
anything on the desktop? Nautilus isn't even getting those events.

The second problem is that turning show_desktop on in gconf-editor doesn't
launch nautilus. This is not really possible to fix without say *always* running
nautilus (even when disabled) just to listen to that confinguration key. Which
makes no sense.