Icon Idiocy in Gnome

[Ari Torhamo]

su, 2007-04-08 kello 09:01 -0400, peek kirjoitti:
> Of the two flavors of Debian I have used (Debian proper and it's
> spin-off Ubuntu), this symptom has popped up on both.  Sometimes when
> I insert removable media, either disk or USB, the icon that Gnome
> places on the desktop winds up on top of an existing icon.

> For me, it's nothing more than a minor annoyance -- click an icon and
> drag it aside.  But for my users, some of whom are not very
> computer-savvy, this could be a confusing headache.  And it would seem
> to go against the mantra that the Gnome developers are always
> chanting: "Do not confuse the user, do not confuse the user..."
> 
> Why does this happen?  And is it something I can fix myself or is it a
> problem within Gnome?


I think most people feel that if you call a persons work idiocy, then
you are implying that the person himself is an idiot. There can't be
idiots developing Gnome - the damn thing is way too good :-) (I know you
propably didn't want to call anybody an idiot :-) Thanks for all who
keep making Gnome better and better. 

About the problem - I have experienced this too fairly recently, but it
doesn't happen often. It was much more common in the past. It really
makes an unpolished impression when it happens. It would be good to know
if there's some specific action/state that triggers this behaviour -
I'll try to take a note when/if this happens again.


Regards,

Ari Torhamo