Ubuntu
gnome-panel package

Dropping a desktop icon over the panel causes horrible UI munging

Bug #40877 reported by Miles Lane
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gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I am running the latest Ubuntu development packages (gnome-panel 2.14.1-0ubuntu5).

Description:

I had a tall icon (a preview of a tall image) that I dropped over the Menu Bar (or near it) in my default gnome panel at the top of the display. The icon snapped down so that it was placed just beneath the panel on the desktop. This is the behavior I would expect. However, something very bad happened with the gnome panel. It became covered along its entire width with repeated renderings of the Menu Bar. I am attaching a screenshot.

Repro:

You can see the tall icon in the attached screenshot. Create something like it, and then try repeatedly dropping the preview icon onto your gnome panel somewhere over or near the Menu Bar.

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Miles Lane (miles-lane) wrote : Image showing munged gnome panel

This image shows the UI breakage cause by dropping a desktop image preview icon onto the gnome panel on or near the Menu Bar applet.

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sam tygier (samtygier) wrote :

looks like you set the image as the panel background. the image is lable screenshot so i assum that the top of it contains a gnome panel. now you have a screenshot of gnome panel set as the background of gnome panel.

right click on the panel and choose properties, not go to the background tab. you can set it back to "None".

this is all expected behaviour, so i will set the bug to rejected. if you feel this is bad behaviour then i suppose you should reopen it.

Changed in gnome-panel:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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Miles Lane (miles-lane) wrote :

Oh, I see. Perhaps a confirmation dialog would help users who unintentionally hit this functionality. This would have the side-benefit of informing users that this functionality exists and give them a clue that the Panel properties is the place to undo the change, if need be. Should I file a separate bug to request this?

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sam tygier (samtygier) wrote :

yeah making a new bug would be best.

i expect this is less confusing though if the image file is not a screenshot :-)

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