As a workaround I used as told in: Comment 25 for bug 1241972 (Valentin Crone (va-crone) wrote on 2014-06-07:) with some modifications: 1 - open nautilus (File browser) ( normal usage of nautilus gave me an error, using with sudo is ok.) sudo nautilus
2 - Go to: /usr/share/applications/ This folder contains all shortcuts of the menu. Copy what you would, and paste where you would. This solved my problem. Thanks Valentin. I hope the issue will not appear in the next LTS. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1241972 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/chromium-browser/+bug/1241972/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp