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Bug 604372 - A drag-n-drop of a desktop icon, representing a mount point, into an open gnome terminal will not produce the desired results.
A drag-n-drop of a desktop icon, representing a mount point, into an open gno...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Desktop
2.28.x
Other Windows
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-12-11 15:02 UTC by bastos.sergio
Modified: 2018-01-02 18:48 UTC
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Description bastos.sergio 2009-12-11 15:02:38 UTC 
Steps to reproduce:
1) Open a new gnome terminal
2) drag a desktop icon representing a mount point into gnome terminal
3) drop icon into gnome terminal
4) pasted text on gnome terminal will show as something like "x-nautilus-desktop:///320%20GB%20Filesystem.volume", which is unusable to the user.

Why doesn't nautilus paste the mount point location, which the icon represents? (eg. in my case, it should have pasted '/media/9E5695B456958DA1_')
Comment 1 Omer Akram 2010-01-16 17:19:54 UTC 
any chances of this getting fixed in 2.30?
Comment 2 António Fernandes 2018-01-02 18:48:30 UTC 
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/