GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 357934
Drag and drop of Bookmarks from Places menu copies entire directory
Last modified: 2020-11-06 20:23:14 UTC
That bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/62529 "To reproduce: drag and drop an entry from the Places menu (NOT the Home Folder) into some other folder (say Desktop) and you'll see a Copy Progress dialog appear. It seems the entire directory structure is copied to the new location. What should happen: a launcher (.desktop file) is created, linking to the bookmark. Note that this is what happens when the Home Folder is DND'd from the Places menu, but no other item does this."
The same happens for me, this can be especially annoying for links to very large directories.
Related to bug #105638?
Created attachment 141507 [details] [review] change GKD_ACTION_COPY to ..._LINK for "places" The attached patch changes the drag&drop action for "places" from GDK_ACTION_COPY to GKD_ACTION_LINK. This does only work for local files, though. The patch is for current master: $ git describe GNOME_PANEL_2_27_4-98-g8c27cbe
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