This morning my desktop appearance was almost right, except (as you may just be able to see from the Screenshot attached) it decided to show Computer, Network Home & Trash icons on desktop which have not appeared before.
The bug is the variable appearance each morning is a 'lucky dip' rather than a reliable, confidence inspiring result. The computer actually works perfectly in every other respect as far as I can tell. Most often desktop appearance is right (or nearly so, as this morning). Sometimes only the desktop icons are missing (wallpaper , is there - The picture of my adoring wife and handsome lil'ol me on holiday in the Gredos Sierra, Spain). Consequently I have to go to 'places' drop-down instead of simply clicking the appropriate desktop icon for the project folder, which is mildly annoying. Occasionally it presents in KDE default blue with no wallpaper and blue folder icons rather than orange, with KDE icons instead of the usual Gnome SVC on the top launcher toolbar (e.g. KDE circular rather than Gnome square icons for Open Office, which are usually only in the lower indicator bar). I thought it may be updates which I load regularly, so I stopped updating, and the effect persisted. Random 'features' are always the hardest to trace, and this is hardly life-threatening, which is, I suspect why previous bug reports have gone nowhere. However, this bug does adversely impact my pet project objective, which is to persuade some of my colleagues to swap their beloved cuddle-rug (but now almost unobtainable) MS-XP for Ubuntu, rather than buy big new machines which are going to be pre-loaded with Vista My colleagues are brain-boxes who run heavy-weight stochastic Monte- Carlo maths packages, but we have almost no programming skills per-se, and, as Vista users in partner organizations seem very far from delighted, we are a bit reluctant to do anything - except wait - sometimes days - for these packages to complete! I am just the techie who wants them to upgrade to Ubuntu so I can get their results out quicker to make their customers happier and our bills paid on time. ** Attachment added: "How the desktop appearance changes appear" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20747488/Screenshot1.png -- IBEX desktop random appearance changes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/309715 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
