Google-drive-ocamlfuse: How to open desktop files in browser?

[dmusican]

I've got google-drive-ocamlfuse working properly, and I'm using desktop as the file type for all Google doc files. I can correctly see these files locally with a .desktop extension, and a file size of 0. How do I actually open them in the browser? Clicking on them in a files browser, or issuing xdg-open on them, just pops up a text editor.

[astrada]

It looks like GNOME removed support for .desktop files with Type=Link since Nautilus version 3.30: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/448

Ubuntu 18.04 ships version 3.26.4, so it still works on bionic. I will look for alternatives.

[dmusican]

Thanks, much appreciated. I'm not running in GNOME at all, incidentally, I"m currently using MATE; but regardless, whatever alternative you find would likely do the job.

[astrada]

In version 0.7.14, I've added desktop_entry_as_html that if set to true makes the app create .html files that redirect you to the edit page. If you change that option, make sure to remount with -cc.

[dmusican]

This is brilliant and works wonderfully. Thank you!