diff --git a/capplets/appearance/ChangeLog b/capplets/appearance/ChangeLog
index 4a9ae9a15..8f4c6cb83 100644
--- a/capplets/appearance/ChangeLog
+++ b/capplets/appearance/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2008-03-19  Jens Granseuer  <jensgr@gmx.net>
+
+	* data/appearance.glade: don't declare the backgrounds icon view
+	reorderable. It's not. Besides, setting this property breaks the
+	custom drag and drop functionality (bug #523347). This fixes the
+	critical warning when trying to drag an unselected item, but it looks
+	like the new nautilus doesn't support background drag and drop, anyway
+
 2008-03-11  Jens Granseuer  <jensgr@gmx.net>
 
 	* data/appearance.glade: don't resize the font samples vertically when
diff --git a/capplets/appearance/data/appearance.glade b/capplets/appearance/data/appearance.glade
index e6b01f8bb..09a0bc763 100644
--- a/capplets/appearance/data/appearance.glade
+++ b/capplets/appearance/data/appearance.glade
@@ -838,7 +838,6 @@
                                     <property name="selection_mode">GTK_SELECTION_BROWSE</property>
                                     <property name="row_spacing">3</property>
                                     <property name="column_spacing">3</property>
-                                    <property name="reorderable">True</property>
                                     <property name="width_request">1</property>
                                     <property name="has_tooltip">True</property>
                                   </widget>