[Edgy] nautilus defaults to spatial mode

Bug #67663 reported by David Rasch
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nautilus (Ubuntu)
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Undecided
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: nautilus

Before upgrading to Edgy all my nautilus settings matched that of another machine I hae here in my home running edgy. When I logged in after the upgrade last night, a) my nautilus defaults to 'spatial' mode, b) I have the 'computer' and 'trash' icons back on the desktop, and c) the size of each file on the desktop was shown beneath it.

From what I understand none of these were intended defaults.
I can set nautilus to the proper default by manipulating gconf, but I'm a bit confused as to how/why the default changed.

Below is output indicating that 'always_use_browser' isn't set.

rasch@hedwig:~$ gconftool-2 -g /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_browser
No value set for `/apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_browser'

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. Does reinstalling nautilus-data fix the issue? That looks like bug #50150

Changed in nautilus:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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David Rasch (rasch) wrote :

Reinstalled nautilus-data and all seems well again.

Background:
I do not nor have I ever installed automatix, I only have pure Ubuntu (main, restricted, *verse) packages installed on this machine.

Any ideas why upgrading nautilus-data didn't work but reinstalling did?

Thanks for the quick response and fixing the problem!

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

it looks like there is some difficult to trigger issue to gconf schemas registration code or gconf is sensible at local issues on the box that can happen at installation time. Marking as duplicate of bug #50150

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