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nautilus package

Dragging a desktop icon into gnome terminal does not work

Bug #495223 reported by ssbastos
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Nautilus
Expired
Medium
One Hundred Papercuts
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

On Ubuntu 9.10, a drag-n-drop of a desktop icon, representing a mount point, into an open gnome terminal will not produce the desired results.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Open a new gnome terminal
2) drag a desktop icon representing a mount point into gnome terminal
3) drop icon into gnome terminal
4) pasted text on gnome terminal will show as something like "x-nautilus-desktop:///320%20GB%20Filesystem.volume", which is unusable.

Why doesn't nautilus paste the mount point location, which the icon represents? (eg. in my case, it should have pasted '/media/9E5695B456958DA1_')

Tags: nautilus
ssbastos (bastos-sergio)
tags: added: nautilus
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

This bug is an upstream one and it would be quite helpful if somebody experiencing it could send the bug the to the people writing the software. You can learn more about how to do this for various upstreams at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME . Thanks in advance!

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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ssbastos (bastos-sergio) wrote :

Ok, I've posted the bug upstream...
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604372

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thanks for sent it upstream.

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
status: New → Triaged
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Vish (vish) wrote :

Thank you for bringing this bug to our attention. However, a paper cut should be a small usability issue, in the default Ubuntu install, that affects many people and is quick and easy to fix. So this bug can't be addressed as part of this project.

- We do not expect average users to use the terminal , hence not a papercut.
For further information about papercuts criteria, please read https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut.

Don't worry though, this bug has been marked as "Invalid" only in the papercuts project.

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status: New → Invalid
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in nautilus:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → New
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in nautilus:
status: New → Expired
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