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nautilus package

Error when renaming icons on destop

Asked by Waldorf Klein

Binary package hint: nautilus

Hello and thank you for your work in developing Nautilus.
I would like to report here something which I think is a bug.

Nautilus 2.20.0

In order to change the names of my Home and Trash icons on the desktop, I went to Configuration Editor to change the values of 'home_icon_name' and 'trash_icon_name' from <no value> to some names of my choice but I was only allowed to choose numbers, so I set it to 0. In doing so, I got this warning:

Type mismatch: Expected `string' not `int' for key /apps/nautilus/desktop/home_icon_name

The icons now appear on the desktop without any name at all.

I haven't been able to go back to the original settings <no value>, and every time I reboot my machine I get the following error:

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An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for gnome-panel. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly.

Details:

Type mismatch: Expected `string' got `int' for key /apps/nautilus/desktop/home_icon_name
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Nothing to be allarmed about, but very annoying.

Waldorf

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This question was originally filed as bug #313818.

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) said : 		#1

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#When%20not%20to%20file%20a%20bug.

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) said : 		#2

The error you experienced was because you set the icon name to an integer type in gconf-editor, when it should be a string. To correct this, launch gconf-editor again, and navigate to /apps/nautilus/desktop/home_icon_name. Edit the key, and change "Type" to "string", and enter the desired name.

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Waldorf Klein (waldorfklein) said : 		#3

Thank you for your answer, Chris.

Changing the "Type" from "integer" to "string" is not allowed. It is gray and blocked.

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Best Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) said : 		#4

You might need to unset the key in gconf-editor first, and then re-add it again.

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Waldorf Klein (waldorfklein) said : 		#5

Thanks, that solved the issue.

(Changing the "Type" from "string" to "integer" or vice versa remains disabled though.)

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Waldorf Klein (waldorfklein) said : 		#6

Thanks Chris Coulson, that solved my question.