Bug#299839: nautilus: Dragging icons (in windows or on the desktop) blanks the background

[Tom Verbreyt]

Package: nautilus
Version: 2.8.2-2
Severity: important


I'm still not sure whether to report this kind of bugs with the upstream
database, or indeed here; apologies if it doesn't belong here.

Only recently (a couple of days ago), I first noticed that the entire
background goes blank when I move one or several icons.

This goes both for windows (moving a document into a folder or something
like that) as for the desktop (e.g. when lining up the various icons).
The whole background of the desktop goes white as soon as I drag-and-drop
an icon. In the file manager, it's even more annoying, since the most
common thing to do there is moving files around, which gets quite hard
if all is blank (moving or copying still works, though; I just have to
remember the position of the folder I want to move stuff to before I
actually do so).

I guess I could provide a screenshot if there's any need.

Cheers,
Tom


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-zukunft-VM
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  capplets             1:2.8.2-1           configuration applets for GNOME 2 
ii  desktop-file-utils   0.9-1               Utilities for .desktop files
ii  libart-2.0-2         2.3.17-1            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         2.8.1-2             Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0       2.8.1-2             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            0.6.9-6             library to parse EXIF files
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          1:2.4.2-2           library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.6.3-1             The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2   2.8.3-2             Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0          2.8.1-2             The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0    2.8.0-1             A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0         2.8.1-3             The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0       2.8.4-2             The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.6.2-4             The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6              4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnautilus2-2       2.8.2-2             libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liborbit2            1:2.12.1-1          libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0        1.8.1-1             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.1-12.0.1 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstartup-notificat 0.8-1               library for program launch feedbac
ii  libx11-6             4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2              2.6.16-3            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.1-12     X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.2-4           compression library - runtime

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