Desktop entries with Type=Link are not opened correctly

Bug #1042439 reported by Arturo Torres Sánchez
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Files
Fix Released
Medium
Jeremy Wootten
Plank
Fix Released
Medium
Rico Tzschichholz
Slingshot
New
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Desktop entries (.desktop files) with Type=Link are meant to be used as shortcuts, such as webpages or files in the system.
Clicking in them should give a similar result than "xdg-open {URL}".
see: http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s05.html

When opened from Files, these desktop entries are opened with Scratch.

When added to Slingshot, these desktop entries do not get listed.

When added to Plank, these desktop entries have no effect when launched.

description: updated
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Cody Garver (codygarver) wrote :

Please attach a file for example.

Changed in pantheon-files:
status: New → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Arturo Torres Sánchez (r2d2.art2005) wrote :
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Arturo Torres Sánchez (r2d2.art2005) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for Files because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in pantheon-files:
status: Incomplete → Expired
Gabriel-LG (gabriel-lg)
Changed in pantheon-files:
status: Expired → Confirmed
Gabriel-LG (gabriel-lg)
description: updated
description: updated
Robert Dyer (psybers)
Changed in plank:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Incomplete
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
Changed in plank:
milestone: none → 0.6.0
assignee: nobody → Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz)
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Changed in pantheon-files:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Changed in plank:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in pantheon-files:
status: Fix Released → Confirmed
Changed in pantheon-files:
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in pantheon-files:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten)
milestone: none → loki-beta1
Cody Garver (codygarver)
Changed in pantheon-files:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in pantheon-files:
milestone: loki-beta1 → 0.3
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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