#236 feature request: support for link-type desktop files

[Nathaniel Beaver]

This is a feature request for XFE to support link-type (type 2) desktop files.

Primarily this is a request for support for desktop files containing file:// URLs, such as this:

$ cat example.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Link
Name=XFE documentation
Name[fr]=Documentation du XFE
URL=file:///usr/share/doc/xfe/

which is based on the file in the example-content package.

In the requested behavior, upon double-clicking on the file above, XFE would navigate to this folder:

/usr/share/doc/xfe

Note that this is different from the behavior of a symbolic link; for a symbolic link to /usr/share/example-content, XFE navigates to

$PWD/xfe/

but still displays the contents of /usr/share/doc/xfe.

Link-type desktop files are also useful for opening URLs in external applications, such as this:

$ cat http-example.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Link
Name=XFE homepage
Name[fr]=Page d'accueil XFE
URL=http://roland65.free.fr/xfe/

or this:

$ cat mailto-example.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Link
Name=Send an email Roland Baudin
Name[fr]=Envoyer un email à Roland Baudin
URL=mailto:roland65@free.fr

although personally I do not use them as much as the file:// URLs.

[Roland Baudin]

Ticket moved from /p/xfe/bugs/253/