Places menu shows "x-nautilus-desktop"

[Crispin Flowerday]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

I have just upgraded from gutsy to hardy, and the Places menu of the panel, and nautilus's bookmark menu is showing 'x-nautilus-desktop' as a menu item. When I selet it I just get a dialogue saying:

Could not open location 'x-nautilus-desktop:///'

The default action does not support this protocol.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. Could you attach your .gtk-bookmarks? The description say you are using the nautilus bookmark menu but you opened the bug on gnome-panel which are you really using?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

alright, read the description too quickly, that doesn't seem to be a bug, something likely created this incorrect bookmark, that's not likely gnome-panel or nautilus though, would be interesting to figure if that's something you did and using what software

[Crispin Flowerday (crispin-flowerday-deactivatedaccount)]

IIRC I have had problems in the past with this x-nautilus-desktop entry in the bookmarks file, which FWIW contains:

file:///tmp System temp dir
x-nautilus-desktop:///
file:///home/crispin/Desktop/Stuff
file:///home/crispin

I don't think I have ever used anything other than gnome to edit the bookmarks file ...

I had this problem before:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330594

So it appears that things have re-appeared in the latest gnome release :-/

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

not sure how you managed to add this bookmark, I've tried doing that using nautilus but ctrl-d on the desktop does nothing and adding it from a nautilus view adds the directory and not the special location

[Crispin Flowerday (crispin-flowerday-deactivatedaccount)]

Perhaps it was a bug in a very old version of nautilus (I'm thinking 2.12 or 2.14) - I can obviously just remove the line but probably invalid lines in there should be ignored anyway ...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

it's not easy to determine whether this line is invalid or not, the format is correct and the url works in nautilus, I think the bug should be closed and whatever application is creating incorrect bookmarks should be changed

[Crispin Flowerday (crispin-flowerday-deactivatedaccount)]

Except the program that created the bookmark was almost certainly an old version of nautilus, and so the bookmark is still there. It didn't appear in gutsy, so it shouldn't appear in hardy

[Emil Sit (emilsit)]

The linked nautilus bug (and its more informative duplicate http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330594) indicates that a patch was committed in 2006 to avoid ctrl-d bookmarking this location. However, there may be an alternate vector for this appearing... should probably test to see if bug can be reproduced from a clean gutsy install followed by a hardy upgrade. I did not see this entry appear when I did a fresh hardy beta install.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

closing, that's not a gnome-panel bug, something must be adding those bookmark, feel free to open a bug if you get the issue again and figure what is doing the change