Bug #9710

nautilus-wipe cannot handle dynamic Desktop links

Added by DanOver 2015-07-08 14:22:24 . Updated 2017-02-10 13:26:46 .

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Low
Assignee:
emmapeel
Category:
Target version:
Tails_3.0
Start date:
2015-07-08
Due date:
% Done:

0%

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Description

If the user clicks in “Wipe” on the menu of the trash, Tails clean all items on desktop and the items on the trash aren’t changed.

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#1 Updated by intrigeri 2015-07-08 15:21:04

  • Assignee set to emmapeel
  • QA Check set to Info Needed

Oops, that sounds like a nasty bug in nautilus-wipe.

Please reproduce or reassign to current frontdesk, and then we’ll report this bug to the relevant upstream authors (bonus points if you do it yourself :)

#2 Updated by kytv 2015-07-08 16:37:18

FWIW I can confirm this. It’s true for right clicking on Trash, home, or Computer and picking Wipe from the context menu. It will not do it for a user created file or folder and it will not do it for Report an Error or Tails documentation.

You’ll see a prompt of Are you sure you want to wipe "Desktop"? If you click the Wipe button it’ll go through with it.

I cannot confirm this when /not/ using the context menu on the desktop. Clicking Wipe from the context menu within Nautilus on a folder within /home/amnesia, for example, works as expected.

#3 Updated by BitingBird 2015-07-08 16:58:13

  • Status changed from New to Confirmed

#4 Updated by emmapeel 2015-07-10 05:52:03

  • Assignee changed from emmapeel to intrigeri

I cannot reproduce on Debian Jessie, as right-clicking on the menu doesn’t give me any ‘Wipe’ option (it may be because of my window manager…)

Although I can confirm this bug is happening in my Tails 1.4.1 install.

Shall I report this to debian, to nautilus-wipe debian upstream, or we need to look onto some magic Wipe options for nautilus-wipe that we added in Tails?

#5 Updated by emmapeel 2015-07-10 07:21:49

  • Subject changed from Wipe Trash to nautilus-wipe cannot handle dynamic Desktop links
  • Assignee changed from intrigeri to emmapeel

Ok. It is a nautilus-wipe missing feature.

I think I can narrow the error down to wiping links generated by the window manager on the desktop, not real files.

If I go in the shell to /home/amnesia/Desktop I just see two files:

amnesia@amnesia:~$ ls Desktop/
Report_an_error.desktop tails-documentation.desktop

This files are not problematic, the problem is the Computer, Home and Trash icons on the Desktop.

#6 Updated by alant 2017-02-10 13:25:09

  • Status changed from Confirmed to In Progress
  • Target version set to Tails_3.0
  • QA Check deleted (Info Needed)

This is fixed in nautilus-wipe 0.3, which is in debian stretch:

> Fix resolving path to virtual (desktop shortcut) locations
>
> Do not consider every URI with an x-nautilus-desktop scheme as pointing
> directly to the desktop, as “Computer”, “Trash” and other virtual
> shortcuts share this scheme on the desktop.
>
> This fixes handling of all virtual shortcuts pointing to simple local
> locations, like drives and home directory. It doesn’t handle trash
> yet, because it’s a lot less straightforward and Nautilus doesn’t help
> much on that.
>
> Fixes https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/9710

https://git.tuxfamily.org/wipetools/nautiluswipe.git/commit/?id=d7b46ce43ad5e7fca9d4f9ff14e85383340d123d

#7 Updated by intrigeri 2017-02-10 13:26:46

  • Status changed from In Progress to Resolved

> This is fixed in nautilus-wipe 0.3, which is in debian stretch:

Closing, then.