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Bug 339145 - Dragging and dropping a location from the Places menu to the desktop does not successfully create a proper link
Dragging and dropping a location from the Places menu to the desktop does not...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 338700
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.14.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
: 339144 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-04-20 09:58 UTC by Matthew East
Modified: 2006-04-20 10:49 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.13/2.14


Description Matthew East 2006-04-20 09:58:50 UTC 
File in the ubuntu bugtracker here: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/40303

1. Drag and drop the link to "Home" from the Places menu onto the desktop.
2. Attempt to drag a file into the resulting link to the home folder.

This fails (I think) because of this bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313877

What should happen, I think, is that when I drag and drop the Home folder from the places menu onto the desktop, nautilus should set the gconf key /apps/nautilus/desktop/home_icon_visible to true. That would enable the user to copy files to the link.

Given that that gconf key is not very obvious for the user, it might be quite common for a user to try dragging and dropping the link from the Places menu in this way, and it should work.

Matt
Comment 1 Matthew East 2006-04-20 09:59:47 UTC 
*** Bug 339144 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Christian Neumair 2006-04-20 10:02:25 UTC 
Good idea!

I think we should do this for Home, Trash, Computer and Network.
Comment 3 Sebastien Bacher 2006-04-20 10:49:27 UTC 
Same issue than bug #338700, feel free to argue on the other bug on how to fix it

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 338700 ***