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:
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