drag&drop of files randomly silently fails
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Unity |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
unity (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I'm not sure whether this is Nautilus or Unity at fault. This happens with both a Nautilus window and the Desktop:
1. In a Nautilus window: click on a file icon, drag it and drop it over a folder. Or hold the Ctrl key and click and drag and drop the file immediately in almost the same place where it was.
In the first case (dragging over a folder) the file should be moved; in the second case the file should be copied. In both cases, if you do it quickly enough, the action is completely ignored and nothing happens.
It seems to be related to the fact that the Launcher (or whatever it is called) shows up on the left of the screen when you start dragging. If its show-up animation is not complete when you drop the item, the drag&drop operation is ignored.
2. On the desktop, the same happens. Or if you simply move an icon (in which case the expected behavior would be for the icon to snap to the nearest position in the grid and stay there) you can also observe that the action is ignored and the icon goes back to its original position.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.14.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-27-generic i686
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,
Date: Thu Jul 26 12:44:14 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-17 (69 days ago)
Changed in unity: | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
This doesn't only happen if done too quickly, this fails randomly about 50% of the times. Even if you wait for the left launcher animation to be completely done before you drop (which I now _always_ do), the drop still silently fails at random times.
Usually, when you redo it a second time it works. But there are times when I retry again and again and it keeps failing, until I deselect, reselect the files and try again and it works.
This is tremendously annoying and it's been already more than 6 months.
It's also DANGEROUS: if you don't realise the copy has not been done, you may delete the original files thinking you have already copied them. Importance should be raised.