GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 89444
Dragging a volume from the desktop to the location bar doesn't work
Last modified: 2018-01-02 18:51:04 UTC
Package: nautilus Severity: normal Version: 2 Synopsis: dragging a volume from the desktop to the location bar doesn't work Bugzilla-Product: nautilus Bugzilla-Component: Navigation Description: Description of Problem: If you drag a mounted volume icon from the nautilus desktop to a Location bar of any nautilus window, Nautilus says it does not have an appropriate viewer. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Mount any volume on the desktop. 2. Open a Nautilus window. 3. Drag the volume icon to the location bar of the Nautilus window. Actual Results: Nautilus says it does not have an appropriate viewer and cancels the operation. Expected Results: Nautilus should have opened the refered mounting point in the file navigator. How often does this happen? Always. Additional Information: ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2002-07-30 13:37 ------- The original reporter (jannone@inf.ufrgs.br) of this bug does not have an account here. Reassigning to the exporter, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org. Reassigning to the default owner of the component, nautilus-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.
I dragged a cdrom-icon to a location-field, and it then tries to show the desktop file. The same happens with the trash-can. I tested this with 2.1.2
Hmm. This is a bit weired. In 2.6.1 dragging a normal folder or symlink from the desktop into the location bar works, but trying with a volume shows e.g. x-nautilus-desktop:///CD-ROM.volume in the location bar but the folder/file view shows my home dir. Trying anything from computer:// just gives an error message ('Nautilus has no installed viewer capable of displaying the file') Retitling and bumping version.
Is this still a problem in 2.8.x/2.9.x? I can't reproduce here because I just have an internal HD and no removable media...
still an issue with 2.11
Created attachment 48916 [details] [review] Proposed patch (against HEAD). I've also submitted the patch to the nautilus mailing list [1] for review. [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2005-July/msg00102.html
Created attachment 49637 [details] [review] Proposed patch #2 Also handles desktop icon files and the case where the activation URI does not correspond to a valid file.
*** Bug 169595 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is still valid with 2.21.5. Dragging a volume from the desktop shows "x-nautilus-desktop:///foovolume" in the location entry.
Changing component as a part of ongoing bug reorganisation work.
Still valid in 3.1.4 and fallback mode.
Comment on attachment 49637 [details] [review] Proposed patch #2 src/nautilus-window-manage-views.c does not exist anymore in git master. Hence setting 'needs-rework' as patch does not apply cleanly.
Starting with version 3.28, nautilus will not handle the "files on desktop background" feature. For better alternatives, read this blog post https://csorianognome.wordpress.com/2017/12/21/nautilus-desktop-plans/