Description of problem: Firefox now supports dragging an icon representing a link (from either the URL entry bar or toolbar) to the desktop which is a useful feature (I used this a lot on Windows). However, there are several problems with how this works in a typical GNOME desktop from Rawhide. First, when initiating DND without modifiers, the user gets a mouse pointer with a question mark. When releasing on the desktop, a window appears but focus-stealing-prevention results in this window not being shown. See bug 156710 (especially the associated links) for details on how to deal with focus-stealing-prevention. Second, as a GNOME user, I expect a popup menu instead of a modal dialog (much like when dragging files around using Nautilus). Third, I'm not sure it makes sense to do anything but produce a link on the desktop - giving the user the opportunity to download the file to the desktop seems like a misplaced feature since that it available in other places in the UI. Suggest to just create a link. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.0.3-5 Additional Info: This feature really rocks and I've missed it since Galeon or something. I discovered the feature (and this bug) while casually seeing if Firefox had gotten this feature since it was inevitable to show up :-)
Although this feature is nice and could work better, I have a hard time seeing this being a blocker for FC4
Hmm, I still get the ask cursor, but no dialog upon drop with firefox 1.5. Is this bug obsolete, David ?
Well, parts of it is obsolete since things got fixed or something. I'm also puzzled by the fact that I got a "ask cursor" but I kinda like just giving me a link instead of asking me questions.
Currently dragging to the desktop does not work at all. Alex says there may be a fix in cvs nautilus, need to check that.
*** Bug 200398 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Still happens with nautilus-2.15.90
Upstream bug has a Manny patch.
It still shows an ask cursor but then it just links, but the "it broke completely" part is fixed.
We just updated the Firefox version in Fedora/development from 2.0 to a 3.0 pre-release version, which improves performance, memory usage, and fixes many bugs and crashes. Closing as CANTFIX since we aren't fixing bugs filed against 2.0 now that 3.0 is in. If this bug is still present in rawhide using a Firefox 3.0 version, please re-open this bug. Thanks and Happy Holidays