[Bug 204909] [NEW] .desktop filename total confusion

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Tested in 8.04 alphas ...
When a Firefox URL is dragged to a folder in a File Browser window, an object with an Earth icon is built that behaves totally erraticaly in countless situations.
First and mostly, the real filename is not the filename that the File Browser displays which is a Windoism, let's call the latter the garnment : the user is shown messages about for example invalid filenames he's unaware of whereas the garnment he sees is a perfectly valid one.
And when he clicks to rename the file, what he renames is not the filename but the garnment. From clueless, he gets mad.
But what's more, the system itself is totally confused.
For example, dragging such a file to move, copy or execute it may result in a message stating that the garnment could not have been processed, that the filename is duplicate (imagine there was no duplicate warning!!!), that the filename is invalid [for the destination filesystem], etc... etc...

Definitely, the idea to have a fake filename usurp the real one should be quit.
The said object should have a single filename created to be valid on all supported filesystems (for example FAT32 onto which dragging an URL may silently do nothing) so that it can be later moved from one to the other.
The caption is well enough to adorn an icon with a garnment.

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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.desktop filename total confusion
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/204909
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