Dragging and dropping a location from the Places menu to the desktop does not successfully create a proper link

[Matthew East]

1. Drag and drop the link to "Home" from the Places menu onto the desktop.
2. Attempt to drag a file into the resulting link to the home folder.

This fails (I think) because of bug #3337.

What should happen, I think, is that when I drag and drop the Home folder from the places menu onto the desktop, nautilus should set the gconf key /apps/nautilus/desktop/home_icon_visible to true. That would enable the user to copy files to the link.

Given that that gconf key is not very obvious for the user, it might be quite common for a user to try dragging and dropping the link from the Places menu in this way, and it should work.

Matt

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.