Nick - you definately can do this on Hardy if you drag the Desktop icon from the Places menu. I agree that it should produce an error, but it doesn't. It ends up recursively copying the desktop and its contents in to itself repeaterdly until either the directory depth gets too deep (filename too long) or the disk fills up, or you realise what it's doing.
I recreated this in a virtual machine by setting up a 20GB partition, putting 500MB of files on my desktop and then dragging the Desktop icon from Places on to the desktop. Within a few minutes the disk was full and the machine died. Note I could only reproduce this problem when there were no volume icons visible on the desktop -- Unable to delete Desktop Folder https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/232048 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
