Links to gvfs mounts do not use a URI
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Nautilus |
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Medium
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nautilus (Ubuntu) |
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Precise |
Won't Fix
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Quantal |
Invalid
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: nautilus
Links to gvfs mounts point to ~/.gvfs/ rather than a URI. Opening the links without previously mounting the remote server produces an error message that the link is broken, and offers to move it to Trash.
Steps to reproduce:
* Places->Connect to a remote server (I use SFTP)
* drag a file to your desktop while holding Alt
* Select "Link Here"
* Unmount the remote server (or reboot, etc)
* Double click on the link
Presumably this could be entirely avoided by having the link point to the URI equivalent of the ~/.gvfs/ path?
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: nautilus 1:2.24.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686
Changed in nautilus: | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in nautilus: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
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importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) → nobody |
Changed in nautilus: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
Changed in nautilus: | |
status: | Invalid → Fix Released |
Changed in nautilus: | |
importance: | Medium → Unknown |
status: | Fix Released → Unknown |
Changed in nautilus: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in nautilus: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
I could be wrong, but I don't think that would be possible (certainly not very easy to do). The problem is, symbolic links are a feature of the filesystem in the kernel. Because of this, they are not aware of (and cannot link to) gvfs URI's.
Like I said though, I could be wrong. I'll let someone more knowledgable than myself comment ;)