Comment 75 for bug 215499

(i am using a up-to-date hardy system)

when displaying a site in firefox 3 and dragging a image to the desktop a link to this page is created automatically without any user interaction. (doesnt seem to be a good default for images to me, but i dont really care).

when dragging something other (i tried a apache dir listing and found some .Z-archives and used them) items: NAUTILUS himself spawns an untitled modal window (i am not a fan of these) looking like this:

<missing title>
Download location?
You can download it or make a link to it.
<make link> <cancel> <download>

[hint: one could carefully hint what location we are talking about.] however this clearly indicates to me that nautilus only got the URL from firefox and is now completely on its own.

and now... finally... if one clicks "download" at this point... the file is downloaded and stored with current time as atime and mtime.

this behavior seems to be a massive failure to some people and i agree that one might call this a bug. however it is most likely not the same bug as the bug discussed here what leads me to the conclusion that it should be discussed elsewhere. (elsewhere means here in launchpad, just in another bug report). should it turn out at some point that it IS the same bug we can unite them easily, then. but right now i do not think this is going to happen... but i might be mistaken, of course.

should this other bug report not gain as much attention could that be an indication that either most people simply dont care or that the problem is described poorly/not marked effecting the relevant packages (important point). but neither is a reason to conquer this bug report only because some people are paying attention here.

final point: i am well aware that some valid bugs are not getting much attention and are not fixed in a long time. but in a mainly (err, universally :) ) community-driven project like ubuntu there is simply not the manpower (and in some way, the money, probably) to change this - right now.