Icon Idiocy in Gnome

Sun Apr 8 13:35:36 UTC 2007

peek wrote:

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> 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.<br>
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> 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..."<br>
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> Why does this happen?  And is it something I can fix myself or is it
> a problem within Gnome?<br>
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> Michael Peek<br>
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Dear Peek,
Please don't post to the list in html format.
Thanks,
Jonathan