There has been report about similar issues over the cycles, e.g bug
#1063487. Technically that's deprecated in 3.30 which removed the
desktop view in favor of a new component (gnome-shell-extension-desktop-
icons) which doesn't have that issue because it forces alignment on the
grid
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Low
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1817269
Title:
New Desktop Icons Overlap Existing Icons
Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
Behaviour observed in Ubuntu Cosmic 18.10
gnome-shell 3.30.2-0ubuntu1.18.10.1 from cosmic-proposed
The expected behaviour is for new icons to populate unoccupied cells
below the column, or occupy the first cell of a new column, or
displace other icons to maintain alpha-numeric organization.
The unexpected bevaviour is observed when desktop icons are created,
such as when disk or network drives are mounted or files are saved to
the desktop, they overlap the existing icons. They do not seem to take
any specific position through a column, but they will always be within
a column (assuming as such, as I always have 'Keep Aligned' enabled).
An image depicting a series of screenshots is attached to illustrate
the observed behaviour. From left to right, the images depict: first,
a single column of organized, aligned icons occupy the desktop;
second, a network drive is mounted using Files, overlapping (and
aligned with) the uppermost icon; third, a second network drive is
mounted, overlapping (and aligned with) the initial and second icon in
that placement; fourth, an optical medium is mounted, and occupies a
space two 'cells' below the original column; fifth, the desktop icons
are arranged using 'Organize Desktop by Name'; sixth, an appimage is
moved to the desktop using Files 'Move to...' function, overlapping
half (and not aligned with) the top-most icon; seventh, a docx file is
moved to the desktop using the same method, overlapping (and aligned
with) the icon in the second cell of the column; finally, the desktop
is organized again using the same method.
Appendum on unexpected behaviour: after the intial creation of this
bug-report, a third file was moved to the desktop using Files,
occupying the empty cell in the first column, after it was seen that
manually moving an icon into that cell was not preserved by 'Organize
Desktop by Name'. After moving the file to the desktop, using the
organize function moves that file into the second column, emptying the
bottom cell in the first column.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.30.2-0ubuntu1.18.10.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-16.17-generic 4.18.20
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Feb 22 00:40:39 2019
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-12-30 (54 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64
(20181017.3)
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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