feature request: support for link-type desktop files
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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.
Ticket moved from /p/xfe/bugs/253/