Bug 600919

Summary:	glitch on how gnome is handling the .desktop links
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Manuel L. Gonzalez-Garay <mlggaray>
Component:	nautilus	Assignee:	Tomáš Bžatek <tbzatek>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	13	CC:	dcantrell, rstrode, tbzatek, tsmetana
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Description Manuel L. Gonzalez-Garay 2010-06-06 17:38:20 UTC

Description of problem:
I just updated from fedora 12 to fedora13. The preupgrade did a wonderful job. 
Now that I am exploring the new features of fedora13 the first thing that I noticed is that all my links to websites are not associated with my preferred application and I don't see any way to associate them with my web browser.
The .desktop links are small files that are created by firefox or chrome when you drag and drop a link from the url. 

Here is an example of a link to linux journal linuxj.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Link to linuxJ
Type=Link
URL=http://www.linuxjournal.com/
Icon=gnome-fs-bookmark




Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
I have been using this features for all the previous releases of fedora.
Fedora 13 is the first release that do not recognize the .desktop extension

How reproducible:
I have upgraded two machines from fedora 12 to fedora 13 and I have noticed the same problem

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Drag and drop a url from fedora or chrome to the Desktop
2. The file lacks of any icons and if you try to open the link do not open.

  
Actual results:
The file is not recognized 

Expected results:
open the file with my preferred application

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2010-06-07 22:05:43 UTC

Reassigning to a more-correct component.

Comment 2 Jesse Keating 2010-06-07 22:25:38 UTC

Pass the bug!

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2011-06-02 11:49:40 UTC

This message is a reminder that Fedora 13 is nearing its end of life.
Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining
and issuing updates for Fedora 13.  It is Fedora's policy to close all
bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained.  At that time
this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 
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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2011-06-27 17:39:21 UTC

Fedora 13 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2011-06-25. Fedora 13 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.