Can't empty dotfiles from trash

Please supply a version information about gnome-panel and or nautilus if the behavior is also in nautilus File->Empty Trash

This works in gnome-panel 2.14.0-0ubuntu1 on dapper

That's exactly the same version I have which is misbehaving.

The behaviour does not exhibit with File->Empty Trash (that is, File->Empty Trash works). Right-clicking still doesn't work.

This is not a bug in malone..

I know it's not a bug in bloody malone, but damn me if I can figure out how to change it to where it ought to go. Thank you kindly for your assistance in doing so.

This bug is already marked as affecting gnome-panel, as you should be able to see by looking at https://launchpad.net/products/malone/+bug/35246. Olafur did this (see https://launchpad.net/products/malone/+bug/35246/+activity). So, you don't need to do anything, this bug has already been appropriately assigned to gnome-panel.

Apologies for the harsh wording of the "Rejected" status in my update. Unfortuately I don't have any other way to indicate that this bug doesn't affect malone.

Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> Apologies for the harsh wording of the "Rejected" status in my update.
> Unfortuately I don't have any other way to indicate that this bug
> doesn't affect malone.
>
Sorry for my own harsh wording; I find malone incredibly frustrating to
work with at times, especially for tasks like reassigning bugs to other
products. :)

-=Eric

Is that specific to that folder or happen with all the .something? What happens if you create a ".something" folder and try deleting it? It works fine for me...

Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Is that specific to that folder or happen with all the .something? What
> happens if you create a ".something" folder and try deleting it? It
> works fine for me...
>
Things have gone from weird to weirder.

1) I created a '.something' folder on my desktop.
2) I moved it into the Trash. This is where the weird starts-- the
'.something' directory stayed on my desktop, as well as appearing in the
Trash.
3) I emptied the Trash-- this correctly detected the '.something'
directory from the trash, but the '.something' directory on my desktop
remained.
4) When I double-click on the '.something' directory on my desktop,
nothing happens. I can right-click on it, and the appropriate context
menu for a directory appears, but when I try to click "Open..." nothing
happens.

-=Eric

That's an another issue, desktop is a special case and doesn't display .stuff. So it means the fact leading to your issue is not the filename starting with a ., you will need to provide other details (permissions by example) or a way to reproduce it

Hi Eric,

Could you please provide the information requested by Sebastien? Thank you for helping us fix this bug. If you have since found that this is not a bug in the software, please let us know so we can close this report.

Thanks in advance.

Your bug lacks information we would need to investigate further. We
are now going to close the bug - please reopen if you have more
information at hand.

I'd love to reopen it, but I don't see any handy "re-open" links, and I don't know how to do that in this friendly system. As a simple matter of fact, Sebastien is wrong-- I can create a folder named '.something' on my desktop, and it displays just fine. I should have replied to this effect earlier, and I apologize that I didn't. The bug still seems to exist.

To reopen this bug, I had to click on gnome-panel at the top; this was not at all obvious. Grr.

Do you still have that problem with edgy?

Your bug lacks information we would need to investigate further. We
are now going to close the bug - please reopen if you have more
information at hand.