Bug 679237

Summary:	nautilus desktop window doesn't appear
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Sean Middleditch <sean>
Component:	nautilus	Assignee:	Tomáš Bžatek <tbzatek>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Sean Middleditch 2011-02-22 01:21:07 UTC

Description of problem:

In the backward compatibility mode of GNOME, the desktop window will not appear.

If Nautilus is started with --no-default-window then it prints:

Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"
Unable to open the desktop metadata keyfile: No such file or directory

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

nautilus-2.91.9-4.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:

Every single time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Start gnome in compat mode (gnome2 desktop)
2.  Notice that you can't see desktop icons, can't right-click on the root window, etc.
3.  Start from command line with --no-default-window
  
Actual results:

Error message.

Expected results:

Working desktop.

Additional info:

It's been happening for a month or two now, though, not just the latest release.  I kept figuring someone would surely notice it and fix what is probably a simple bug, but apparently everyone has switched to gnome-shell and nobody's noticed yet or fixed it.

Comment 1 Cosimo Cecchi 2011-02-24 15:28:39 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> 
> In the backward compatibility mode of GNOME, the desktop window will not
> appear.
> 
> If Nautilus is started with --no-default-window then it prints:
> 
> Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module"
> Unable to open the desktop metadata keyfile: No such file or directory

This is intentional; you can restore icons on the desktop by setting the org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons gsettings key to true (and the messages you see from nautilus are not bugs; the first one is due to a failure in loading the GTK+ packagekit module, which doesn't matter at all in this case, and the second one is just an informative message from nautilus).