Public bug reported:
Tested in 8.04 alphas ...
When a Firefox URL is dragged to a folder in a File Browser window, an object
with an Earth icon is built that behaves totally erraticaly in countless
situations.
First and mostly, the real filename is not the filename that the File Browser
displays which is a Windoism, let's call the latter the garnment : the user is
shown messages about for example invalid filenames he's unaware of whereas the
garnment he sees is a perfectly valid one.
And when he clicks to rename the file, what he renames is not the filename but
the garnment. From clueless, he gets mad.
But what's more, the system itself is totally confused.
For example, dragging such a file to move, copy or execute it may result in a
message stating that the garnment could not have been processed, that the
filename is duplicate (imagine there was no duplicate warning!!!), that the
filename is invalid [for the destination filesystem], etc... etc...
Definitely, the idea to have a fake filename usurp the real one should be quit.
The said object should have a single filename created to be valid on all
supported filesystems (for example FAT32 onto which dragging an URL may
silently do nothing) so that it can be later moved from one to the other.
The caption is well enough to adorn an icon with a garnment.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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.desktop filename total confusion
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204909
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