All together now, breath through your nose... Ahhhh... that's better. Yes, this is a longstanding issue, but maintaining a major component of an OS is no small task, I'm sure you know. The Unity desktop dev team, I'm sure, are working their tails off to improve the s/ware, which includes prioritizing the issues.
I share your concern, though, and hope to see this issue resolved sooner than later. Kinda goes with choosing Linux as one's OS... it has gotten so much more solid over the last decade, but still shows seams here and there. Now, exhale.... ! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1278437 Title: can't move link type .desktop files around on desktop Status in Nautilus: Fix Released Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in nautilus source package in Xenial: Triaged Bug description: * Impact links can't be moved on the desktop * Test case Save the following as e.g. test.desktop in your ~/Desktop folder and try to move it around on the desktop: [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Type=Link Name=test URL=https://launchpad.net/index.html * Regression potential Dnd should keep working ------------------ If I have a .desktop file with Type=Link on my desktop and try to move it around it doesn't stay where I drop it but goes back where it was before and tries to download the URL it is referring to instead. Save the following as e.g. test.desktop in your ~/Desktop folder and try to move it around on the desktop: [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Type=Link Name=test URL=https://launchpad.net/index.html This affects at least 13.10 and 14.04. In 13.10 Nautilus crashes if the URL as a file:// URL referring to a file on your desktop. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: nautilus 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-7.26-generic 3.13.1 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-7-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu2 Architecture: i386 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Mon Feb 10 14:06:24 2014 GsettingsChanges: InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-11 (122 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Beta i386 (20130925.1) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/zsh SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2013-12-07 (64 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/1278437/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
