Konqueror and Dolphin handles *.desktop files as shortcuts, i. e. when you ‘open’ them an application or URI which *.desktop file points to is launched. But Krusader treats them as plain text files. Krusader also does not show individual icons for *.desktop files (while Konqueror / Dolphin does that) but a gear as for binary executables for all them. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Find any *.desktop file. Somewhere in /usr/share/applications/ maybe. 2. Try to ‘open’ it (i. e. hit ‘Enter’ or double-click it). Actual Results: A file will be opened by association for ‘application/x-desktop’ type – in a text editor most probably. Expected Results: I believe that Krusader should act as other KDE apps do, i. e. exec destination app or URI. Possible workaround is to associate *.desktop files to be opened by ‘kioclient open’ which is also handles them correctly. But this does not resolve the problem with icons.
As a temporary workaround, you can use this script - http://onedev.net/post/490
(In reply to Stanislav from comment #1) > As a temporary workaround, you can use this script - > http://onedev.net/post/490 Sorry, I can’t see a point here. While shortcuts to web-pages indeed a main use-case for *.desktop files stored throughout the file-system, why re-inventing a bicycle, who forbids you to associate them with ‘kioclient open’?
It's duplicated bug, that was reported https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337407 Read comment by Jan Lepper, his krusader-next branch was fixed this bug.
(In reply to linnets from comment #3) > It's duplicated bug, that was reported > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337407 > > Read comment by Jan Lepper, his krusader-next branch was fixed this bug. That’s a good news, however I am afraid, I did not understand which bug is duplicated and where the comment by Jan Lepper is.
Hey, sorry, copy wrong link ;) https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308694
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 308694 ***