oddity with moving "Link" icons on desktop (Ubuntu 13.10 Unity)

[Florian Diesch]

Am Sun, 09 Feb 2014 18:02:15 +1100
schrieb Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au>:

> But when I try the same thing with the URL icon, it doesn't stay
> where I drop it. It stays right where it was, and an error dialogue
> opens saying:
> 
>    Error while copying "/".
>    There was an error copying the file into /home/kauer/Desktop.

This seems to be a bug in Nautilus.

When you try to move a .desktop file with type Link on the desktop
Nautilus thinks you want to drop the URL on the desktop. 

If your .desktop file contains a URL that leads to a file you don't get
an error if you try to move it but Nautilus downloads that file to the
desktop.

A .desktop file that contains a file:// URL to a file on your desktop
crashes Nautilus if you try to move it.

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