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[Bug 1241972] Re: Drag and drop from Dash to Desktop doesn't work

 

@Anshu - no, nobody is working on this at the moment.  I can confirm
it's still happening, I just had it happen again today in Ubuntu 14.04.

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Title:
  Drag and drop from Dash to Desktop doesn't work

Status in Chromium Browser:
  New
Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
  Triaged
Status in Unity:
  Triaged
Status in Unity 7.1 series:
  Won't Fix
Status in Unity 7.2 series:
  Triaged
Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in unity package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When you try to drag and drop an app from Dash (both from app lens and
  home lens) to Desktop, system display an error and the shortcut isn't
  created.

  The error is:
  Error while copying - There was an error getting information about "/".
  More details: The specified location is not supported

  Then there are four buttons: "Cancel" - "Skip all" - "Skip" - "Retry".

  Way to reproduce:
  - Open the dash
  - Drag an app icon and drop on desktop

  What happend:
  - An error is raised

  What expected:
  - A shortcut is created

  With file, music and photo is all ok.

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