Bug#206038: nautilus: Same thing happens when playing with dual-screen layout.

[Sven Luther]

Package: nautilus
Version: 2.8.2-2
Followup-For: Bug #206038


Hello,

I played with my dual screen setup, and stacked the screens vertically to try
to workaround the radeon mergedfb 2048 resolution limit (2x1280x1024). I
reverted this as it didn't work.

Saddly, the icons ended up being in the bottom screen of the vertical layout,
and thus when reverting to horizontal dual-screen, they simply dissapeared,
probably being drawn at screen coordinates below the showed screen.

There seem to be no way to get these back in place at all, so i think this
issue may be not minor but probably normal at least. It is similar to a
gnome-panel issue in bug : #289114 and #289117, maybe duplicated in
corresponding gnome-panel bugs.

A quick fix here would be to have code that checks when displaying icons if
they are out of the visible area, and then redisplay them in their
default position. I am not sure if something more subtle can be done or not.

Friendly,

Sven Luther

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-powerpc
Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  capplets                 1:2.8.1-3       configuration applets for GNOME 2 
ii  desktop-file-utils       0.9-1           Utilities for .desktop files
ii  libart-2.0-2             2.3.16-6        Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0              1.8.0-4         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0            0.2.6-5         Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0             2.8.0-4         Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0           2.8.0-2         The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-20    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libeel2-2                2.8.2-1         Eazel Extensions Library (for GNOM
ii  libesd0                  0.2.35-2        Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libexif10                0.6.9-4         The EXIF library allows you to par
ii  libgail-common           1.8.2-1         GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgail17                1.8.2-1         GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4              2.8.1-4         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0              1:2.4.1-1       Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.6.1-2         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2       2.8.1-2         Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0              2.8.0-6         The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0        2.8.0-1         A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0             2.8.0-3         The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0           2.8.3-9         The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.4.14-2        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnautilus2-2           2.8.2-2         libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liborbit2                1:2.10.2-1.1    libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.6.0-3         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                 1.7-5           lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2               2.8.1-2         SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libsm6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstartup-notification0 0.7-1           library for program launch feedbac
ii  libx11-6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2                  2.6.11-5        GNOME XML library
ii  nautilus-data            2.8.2-2         data files for nautilus
ii  shared-mime-info         0.15-1          FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa
ii  xlibs                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.2-4       compression library - runtime

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