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tested with nautilus in newest ubuntu 11.04:
Files whose name ends with ".desktop" seem to be handled very special in
nautilus (without any mime-type check) and there are three bugs with it:
1) Inside the directory "~/.local/share/applications" (and only there!):
When you rename some file "example.desktop" (you might create a new
empty file for this test) to "example2.desktop", then the filename will
be "example2.desktop.desktop". You must rename it to "example2" to
achieve "example2.desktop"
2) Inside the directory "/tmp" you might create some file named
"example.desktop". When you want to rename it, a popup tells "renaming
is not possible" and when you want to move it to trash it then a popup
tells "cannot move to trash, do you want to delete directly?"
3) Inside other directories, e.g., home, you might create some file
named "example.desktop". When you want to rename it, a popup tells
"renaming is not possible", but in opposite to the case inside the /tmp
directory, you can just move it to trash without problems.
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So, there seems to be something wrong in this special handling. Further,
I would suggest that any special handling of .desktop files should be
disabled anyway. Especially, because you cannot open a .desktop file
with a texteditor from nautilus.
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: desktop file nautilus
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3 problems with renaming / deleting .desktop files in nautilus
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/815389
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