Bug 704336

Summary:	Nautilus is missing autostart file
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jeremy Bicha <jbicha>
Component:	nautilus	Assignee:	Tomáš Bžatek <tbzatek>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	ccecchi, tbzatek, tsmetana
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Description Jeremy Bicha 2011-05-12 20:44:55 UTC

Description of problem:
Nautilus is missing autostart file, which prevents it from actually showing desktop icons when dconf key is set.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.0.1.1-1.fc15

Steps to Reproduce:
1. gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons true
  
Actual results:
Desktop icons will not be shown. (Note that it does kind of work if you already have a file browser window open, but that shouldn't be expected).

Expected results:
Desktop icons should be shown when that dconf key is set.

To fix:
Store a nautilus.desktop in /etc/xdg/autostart/. The Exec line should be nautilus -n.

You will probably also want to add a patch for https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649063 which I believe won't be fixed until 3.1.1.

Comment 1 Cosimo Cecchi 2011-05-12 21:16:10 UTC

Jeremy: the patch will be in upstream 3.0.2, due in ~10 days.

Nautilus should not ship any kind of autostart files. It's up to e.g. gnome-tweak-tool to install such a file in ~/.config/autostart (or up to the user, in case he wants to set the gsettigns key manually from a terminal or dconf-editor).

Comment 2 Jeremy Bicha 2011-05-12 21:52:28 UTC

Well I disagree with the design then. Until Gnome 3, Gnome showed desktop icons; now a user will not only have to set the dconf key but also create an autostart file.

I'll report this against gnome-tweak-tool I guess.

Comment 3 Jeremy Bicha 2011-05-12 22:00:12 UTC

It also means that the desktop icons won't show until the user logs out and logs back in since nautilus -n is not able to monitor the gsettings key since it won't be running.

Comment 4 Cosimo Cecchi 2011-05-16 17:20:04 UTC

Yes, all of this is expected. Desktop icons are off by default, and there's no UI in GNOME3 to turn them on, except gnome-tweak-tool, for those who really want to turn them back on.