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nautilus package

  1. Bug #233913
  2. Comment #20

Comment 20 for bug 233913

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Alex Robinson (alex-launchpad-tranzoa) wrote :

It gets worse. If the URL is a 404, then the mime type is changed to unknown and the shortcut does not fire up the browser.

To experiment on Hardy 64, FF3 as default browser, edit the .desktop file and change the URL= link back and forth between existing pages and 404 links.

If you can see your server logs, you'll see the hit in apache's error.log in the 404 case.

In any case, after you toggle the URL= between valid and 404 link, right-click|Properties the desktop link and watch the mime type toggle between text/html and unknown. In other words, right-click|Properties causes a web hit!

May I humbly suggest that desktop web links are a thousand times more important in a post-internet operating system than spinning, 3D windows - on a desktop that stopped working after Hardy on nVideo cards. :)