(i am using a up-to-date hardy system)

when displaying a site in firefox 3 and dragging a image to the desktop
a link to this page is created automatically without any user
interaction. (doesnt seem to be a good default for images to me, but i
dont really care).

when dragging something other (i tried a apache dir listing and found
some .Z-archives and used them) items: NAUTILUS himself spawns an
untitled modal window (i am not a fan of these) looking like this:

<missing title>
Download location?
You can download it or make a link to it.
<make link> <cancel> <download>

[hint: one could carefully hint what location we are talking about.]
however this clearly indicates to me that nautilus only got the URL from
firefox and is now completely on its own.

and now... finally... if one clicks "download" at this point... the file
is downloaded and stored with current time as atime and mtime.

this behavior seems to be a massive failure to some people and i agree
that one might call this a bug. however it is most likely not the same
bug as the bug discussed here what leads me to the conclusion that it
should be discussed elsewhere. (elsewhere means here in launchpad, just
in another bug report). should it turn out at some point that it IS the
same bug we can unite them easily, then. but right now i do not think
this is going to happen... but i might be mistaken, of course.

should this other bug report not gain as much attention could that be an
indication that either most people simply dont care or that the problem
is described poorly/not marked effecting the relevant packages
(important point). but neither is a reason to conquer this bug report
only because some people are paying attention here.

final point: i am well aware that some valid bugs are not getting much
attention and are not fixed in a long time. but in a mainly (err,
universally :) ) community-driven project like ubuntu there is simply
not the manpower (and in some way, the money, probably) to change this -
right now.

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Nautilus not preserving timestamps
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