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google: Do not create .desktop files for native files

Ondrej Holy requested to merge wip/oholy/do-not-use-desktop-files into master

Currently, .desktop file with a link to the original location is provided, when a native file is opened because Google doesn't provide its proprietary formats and GLocalFile doesn't know G_FILE_TYPE_SHORTCUT. It is a bit tricky and confusing, among other because the .desktop files aren't automatically converted back to native files when writing.

What is worse, Nautilus has dropped support for .desktop files recently, so you see "There was an error launching the application." instead of the requested file. It doesn't make more sense to provide this .desktop files, so let's remove this fallback and return error instead.

nautilus#448

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