This is a quite old bug. I tried with nautilus 1:3.18.4.is.4.14.3-0ubuntu5 on Ubuntu 16.04.
I can confirm that the special folders like "Home", "Network" and "Trash" do not show icon caption, but I do not know if this is intended or not, since the caption does not appear even when "icon caption" option is set back to None. Finally, all the other files or folders created on the Desktop, show correctly the expected caption. If the last behavior is not intended for the special icons, I think this bug can be closed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1413117 Title: icon captions info on desktop don't disappear Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: In nautilus, when I go to Edit -> Preferences -> Display -> icon captions, and change the highest order (first one) from None to Type (or anything else), this change is not applied to desktop icons and nothing happens to them. And when I set it back to None, Type captions (or whatever I selected at first) appear under desktop icons. This problem only occurs for desktop icons. It works fine for icons in other directories. Actually I expect that when I change icon captions from None to Type, type information of each file or directory appears under desktop icons, but nothing happens. And furthermore I expect that when I change it back to None, type information disappears, but they appear. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: nautilus 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-44.73-generic 3.13.11-ckt12 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-44-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.6 Architecture: i386 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Wed Jan 21 12:01:28 2015 GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified', 'date_accessed', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where']" InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-12-08 (409 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release i386 (20131016.1) SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-09-08 (135 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1413117/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
