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Ability to open .desktop files of Type=Link
Status:
CLOSED: FIXED
Severity:
enhancement
Product:
Thunar-vfs
Component:
General

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Description Benedikt Meurer editbugs 2006-01-24 23:09:28 CET
Thunar currently lacks support to open .desktop files of Type=Link. This is
because there's currently no preferred applications support for Xfce (see bug
#1368), and because we lack a mime type that matches exactly these files and is
a subclass of application/x-desktop.

So to address this issue, fix bug #1368, add a mime type
special/x-xfce-desktop-link, and register a program for that mime type, which
simply runs the preferred application.
Comment 1 Benedikt Meurer editbugs 2006-01-31 15:30:32 CET
2006-01-31	Benedikt Meurer <benny@xfce.org>

	* thunar-vfs/thunar-vfs-info.c: Treat .desktop files of Type=Link as
	  executable as well, and when requested to execute such a file, extract
	  the URL and pass it to exo-open for further processing. Bug #1369.

Comment 2 Benedikt Meurer editbugs 2006-01-31 15:30:41 CET
2006-01-31	Benedikt Meurer <benny@xfce.org>

	* thunar-vfs/thunar-vfs-info.c: Treat .desktop files of Type=Link as
	  executable as well, and when requested to execute such a file, extract
	  the URL and pass it to exo-open for further processing. Bug #1369.

Bug #1369

Reported by:
Benedikt Meurer
Reported on: 2006-01-24
Last modified on: 2010-11-07

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Assignee:
Jannis Pohlmann
CC List:
1 user

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