*** Ideal case ***

I drag an URL from my web browser to desktop. A link is created. Later I
drag the link to a web browser, and the browser opens the page in question.
Or if I doubleclick the link, it opens it in a new browser window.


*** Reality ***

Now, sometimes dragging links to desktop does nothing.
Sometimes it makes .desktop files that look right.

But when I try dragging back to the browser, Mozilla and Galeon do
*nothing* although they indicate they are accepting a drag. Doubleclicking
the link on the desktop opens the link in Nautilus window, that, not having
a web view on gnome2, uses the text view to display the raw HTML of the page.

This has been like this forever, and I remember a lot of people claimed
they'd look at this / fix it / whatever, but so far it does not really seem
to work.

Dragging into panel does about the same, except that the .desktop file
contains more information, like the web page title as the comment field.

I also had a *very* bizarre case where I dragged a link to the desktop, an
d no link was created, but one of my plain text files on the desktop
suddenly changed its icon to the .desktop file icon. When I looked at the
plain text file in question, it had the contents of the .desktop file in
the beginning, *overwriting* the original file contents for that part. Now
this is *really* bizarre, and it happened for me only once. VERY weird.