[Hardy] Cannot launch firefox from desktop URLs, nor drag URLs to Desktop.

[Noel J. Bergman]

Binary package hint: nautilus

A recent change broke the ability to drag and drop URLs from Firefox to the Gnome desktop. Attempting to do so results in:

    Drag and drop is only supported on local file systems"

when trying to drop the URL.

Likewise, URLs (.desktop Link entries that I had previously dragged to the desktop using Firefox earlier while testing Hardy Alpha 3, no longer open Firefox. An example of this would be:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Bugs in The Hardy Heron
Type=Link
URL=https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy
Icon=gnome-fs-bookmark

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

As of tonight, with all updates installed, desktop URLs launch Firefox, so that's fixed. But I still cannot drag URLs from Firefox to the Desktop. Should probably have created two bug entries.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your report, that's known upstream you can track it here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508190

[Noel J. Bergman (noeljb)]

Thanks for the update. I read the upstream defect, and can report that at least as of now (I've already installed all of tonight's updates, and hadn't tried it before), although I cannot drag URLs to the Desktop*, I can drag URLs to other folders.

* Actually, I can drag to the Desktop as a folder in the File Browser, just not as the Gnome Desktop.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

This has been fixed upstream, thanks you all for reporting!.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:2.21.91-0ubuntu1

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nautilus (1:2.21.91-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - String cleanups
    - Inhibit autorun for things we mount ourselves
    - Fix crashes and leaks (lp: #185441, #186266, #187810)
    - Only show selinux context if selinux detected
    - Default to move, not copy when dragging from trash
    - Don't autorun/automount non-local mounts
    - Fix case where we could run out of file descriptors
    - Handle drop of files on the desktop (lp: #185581, #186037)
    - Fix sensitiveness of delete from trash menu item
    - Fix open with context menu in always-use-browser mode (lp: #187991)
  * debian/control.in:
    - updated libglib requirement
  * debian/patches/90_from_svn_correct_trash_symlink_handling.patch:
    - dropped, fixed in the new version

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:18:49 +0100