Comment 15 for bug 315983

I messed around with the source package, nautilus-2.25.2/libnautilus-private/nautilus-link.c to be specific, and made a change that seems to fix the problem. In the function nautilus_link_get_link_name_from_desktop, where type is checked in order to assign an icon (at least that's what I think it does) I added a line to first check to see if type == NULL. I suppose the problem may have been trying to copy a string which did not exist. I have attached the modified file.

I am not a programmer by any means, so there is probably a better way to fix the problem, but maybe this will help.

btw, if there is a better way to do this, please tell me. I'm kinda new to this. :)