Nautilus folder manager generates random colors in folder background when folders are opened.

I´ve assigned this bug to the nautilus package. Thank You for making Ubuntu better.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately, we can't fix it because your description didn't include enough information. You may find it helpful to read "How to report bugs effectively" http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem.

We have instructions on debugging some types of problems at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProcedures

At a minimum, we need:
1. the specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the problem,
2. the behavior you expected, and
3. the behavior you actually encountered (in as much detail as possible).
Thanks!

Dell Mini 10v 1GB with Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Dell version.

At a minimum needs asked for:
1. the specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the problem,
Answer: I took ABSOLUTELY NO STEPS to cause me to encounter this problem!!
2. the behavior you expected:
I expect the folder background color to remain the white color that is system default color which is white when opening any folder!!!
3. the behavior you actually encountered (in as much detail as possiblle):
Nautilus folder manager generates random background colors in folder when the folders are opened system wide and I cannot make changes to stop it. Simply, when I open folders on my desktop, whether it is my user folders, system file folders or even the folders I open on my removable drives on the desktop the folder window background frequently changes color from default white (I chose) to any color in the spectrum including black without a command prompt or script I can find to do so!
Additionally, with any folder that is opened, if the color in that folder background changes from white to another color (blue for example)......that color remains constant and does not change to a different color (yellow for example) upon subsequent opening and closing that same folder until after the 5th or 6th time of opening that same folder the color will sometimes change to the default white but not always with Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Dell version.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: lpia
Date: Fri Feb 5 13:04:30 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: yelp 2.22.1-0ubuntu2.8.04.3.1netbook2
PackageArchitecture: lpia
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-24-lpia i686
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package

Thank you for responding so quickly and helping to make Ubuntu better. I have altered the description in order to make it more concise for the developers. I will also see about getting this bug triaged.

Marking Triaged/Low.

@MichaelN: please stop making useless changes to the bug. Every time you do that we get an email.

Well, well, well. Here's the response MichaelN emailed me:

Oh well,
I do not really care! Put them in the trash and quit whining because it would not be happening if the reposrt would be saved properly and each one of you supposedly doing something about it would stop changing it.
At this point, it doesn't matter anyway since nobody has bothered to fix the issue since it was reported by other users last year! Do not threaten me and tell me my changes are useless-you really do not want to threaten me that would be a bad move! And don't bother emailing me again!
Michael

Yes, that is right-I am glad you received it!
C de-Avillez you are RUDE and it is obvious you need to seriously work on your public forum relations!!!
As a result, you were told by me so in no uncertain terms how it is!
It is recommended that you cease your current COMBATIVE mode of communication regarding the reporting of issues related to this forum to elevate it's integrity!
In short, learn from it, understand and go forward C de-Avillez!!

I've been using Ubuntu since Dapper, on several machines. I just received my new Mini 10V (with Dell installed Hardy) yesterday. Sure enough, the Nautilus background color keeps switching to black on me (and yes, occasionally mauve) no matter how often I reset it to white via Backgrounds and Emblems. Black is nasty because all the text disappears. However if I switch to View As List all is well and in fact I can then switch back to View As Icons and I have my white background back. Simply minimizing the window and re-maximizing it does not help, neither does resizing or moving it. Closing it and reopening it gives random results, much like opening it in the first place.

Unfortunately the first thing I did when I booted my new 10V was to get the updates, so I'm afraid I couldn't tell you if this behaviour was present before then.

Swampy, thank you for letting us know about this temporary workaround. I will add it to the description so anyone else who encounters this bug will be able to see it more easily.

Is this still an issue with latest package on Lucid?

I'm also having this issue, Dell Mini 9 with the standard Dell Hardy Heron distribution, didn't always do it, noticed it a few months ago - so probably about the time MichaelN reported it. It *is* annoying (ie, I can see why he's annoyed).
may to be something to do with something called RGBA, see this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1435575&highlight=nautilus+background+color+change
Sorry I can't provide more info, and thanks for the workaround.

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.

The information is there. In the Hardy distribution of Dell Mini, when a new Nautilus folder is opened, sometimes (more often than not) a random colour (often black) appears in the background (along with the text background for the icon labels). The Dell Mini repository has not been updated since Hardy. Reopening since the bug has not been fixed. Changes have only been excuses for not fixing it.

The bug is old and Ubuntu changed quite a lot since, there has also been no activity here nor similar reports. Closing since we believe the issue as described is deprecated but feel free to file a new report if you still have problems in recent Ubuntu versions.