GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 613630
Desktop folder (place) launchers don't work from web browser's browse buttons (attach in email ...)
Last modified: 2010-03-28 18:39:40 UTC
In openSUSE 11.2 with GNOME 2.28.0, I have a folder launcher in my desktop (shortcut). I created it with mouse right button -> create launcher -> type: place + desired name + route to the folder. It works OK offline: if I click on it Nautilus opens in the specified folder/route. But if I open Firefox, login into my email account, create a new message and try to attach a file the problem appears: I click on the Browse... button and a window with Nautilus opens -> I click on Desktop and then on my folder launcher. Instead of forwarding to the launcher destiny folder the window with Nautilus closes.
The window that opens after clicking 'browse' in firefox is not nautilus, but the GTK+ file chooser, you can also reproduce it, for example, from the 'open file..' menu in gedit. I've also found the corresponding bug in GtkFileChooser, so I'm marking this as a duplicate of it. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 504323 ***
There is a workaround: Open a terminal and create a symbolic link: ln -s /the/destination/folder ~/Desktop/link ( Taken from http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=view&parentID=59037 ) ( FOR KDE based distros: in the file system navigator window, to see the just created symlink, it may be necessary to click on the refresh button. )