[Bug 84262] Gnome desktop icons are shifted when the file is edited

[Jarmo Ilonen]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: nautilus

I noticed this (minor but annoying) bug after upgrading to feisty around
herd2. I am using defaultish gnome desktop and the current version of
nautilus is 2.17.90-0ubuntu1.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Create a text-file to desktop (~/Desktop), for example foo.txt
2. Move the file's icon to somewhere else from its default place
3. Double-click the icon so it gets opened (in gedit here)
4. Write something and save
5. The icon is moved to upper left corner, while it should stay where it was (and did so in edgy).

Creating a new user with empty $HOME did not help, so I assume it is not
caused by any local settings. However, the bug does not seem to affect
all kinds of files, for example icons of images stay in the same place
when edited.

I tried to find if the bug has been reported before but did not find
anything. Closest match I found was
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330298 and it seems like there
was some patch applied to nautilus post-edgy; maybe it's related to
this. Anyway, this bug is quite annoying as I have become used to
storing few frequently edited text files in the desktop, and now they
all want to gather round in the left upper corner.

** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Gnome desktop icons are shifted when the file is edited
https://launchpad.net/bugs/84262