Bug 868496

Summary:	nemo and nautilus fight each other for desktop icon display
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Michael S. <misc>
Component:	nemo	Assignee:	leigh scott <leigh123linux>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Michael S. 2012-10-20 10:15:47 UTC

/etc/xdg/autostart/nemo-autostart.desktop and /etc/xdg/autostart/nautilus-autostart.desktop both specify to start nemo and nautilus for the same condition :
AutostartCondition=GSettings org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons


If both are installed and the option is specified, this mean that both will be started, however, starting nautilus will disable nemo and vice versa. This make nemo interfering with nautilus out of the box and vice versa, and that can be quite surprising for users. I am not sure that starting nautilus -n and nemo -n at the same time will always end in the same way. The only solution is to disable one of them from gnome-session-properties.

( as a side note, using the same title for both is quite surprising, and I do not see why nemo reused the name File )

So maybe nemo should stop using the gnome name space for his setting, so this would not interfer with gnome.

Comment 1 leigh scott 2012-10-20 10:23:30 UTC

This is a upstream issue

Comment 2 Michael S. 2012-10-20 13:27:46 UTC

Then report it upstream. And the duty of integration with the distribution is not upstream.

Comment 3 leigh scott 2012-10-20 14:18:15 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Then report it upstream. And the duty of integration with the distribution
> is not upstream.

I see Clem has fixed it :-)

https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/commit/eda34ff3cfdc416ccb4360b8d0166da70b5e5123

Comment 4 Michael S. 2012-10-20 14:42:46 UTC

Wel, the fix is wrong, because it would still interfer with gnome-shell. Ie someone installing cinnamon would just see icon appearing on the desktop on his gnome-shell session.

And not, as long as the bug is in Fedora, closing it as "not a bug" is not a solution.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-10-21 13:42:40 UTC

nemo-1.0.5-2.fc18, cinnamon-1.6.3-1.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/nemo-1.0.5-2.fc18,cinnamon-1.6.3-1.fc18

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2012-10-21 19:23:39 UTC

Package nemo-1.0.5-2.fc18, cinnamon-1.6.3-1.fc18:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 18 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing nemo-1.0.5-2.fc18 cinnamon-1.6.3-1.fc18'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-16572/nemo-1.0.5-2.fc18,cinnamon-1.6.3-1.fc18
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2012-12-20 15:43:30 UTC

nemo-1.0.5-2.fc18, cinnamon-1.6.3-1.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.