You have been subscribed to a public bug: The handling of dialogs on the desktop is rather unusable in Hardy Heron with latest updates applied.
This make Ubuntu rather poor for the naive user! For example: Create an ASCII text file on the desktop ("test.txt"). Make it executable. Double click on it. A dialog appears saying "Do you want to run test.txt, or display its contents?". My naive user doesn't know what to do, and while he is still wondering, a second dialog appears, saying "Opening test.txt: You can stop this operation by clicking cancel." This dialog appears ON TOP of the first. Unfortunately, clicking cancel in this dialog does NOT work. You have to somehow go back to the first dialog, which is now partially or totally hidden, and select an action from there. Please, please try to fix such issues. I am trying to set up an ex- Windows user with Ubuntu instead, and I feel really embarassed that it is not as easy to use as it should be... The same problem seems to happen with compiz and metacity. ** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Modal dialog can be covered by another dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/312448 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs