"Open With Other Application" fast search of listed apps malfunctions

[Ari]

Open a nautilus file browser window.

Right click on a file; let's say you right click on "dmesg.log" in your home directory.

Choose "Open with Other Application" (by the way, I think the correct spelling would be "Open with Another Application")

Now you get a list of available applications. Let's say you want to quickly locate the text editor. So, as I did in Dapper and Edgy, I start a fast search typing "text" (for example). I would expect that the "Text Editor" entry would be highlighted. Instead, I get "Movie Player". In fact, whatever I try to fast search, I always get the wrong application highlighted.

Happens 100% of the time. Feisty clean install. This is a bit annoying.

Thanks!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. Looks like it uses the command name, which allow people knowing it to find it without having to look what is the description. That's not a bug, closing

[Ari (ari-reads)]

Hi Sebastien, I don't think they are using the command line. Try "fast-typing" : gedit or /usr/bin/gedit, it doesn't autocomplete nor it doesn't highlight the Text Editor, nor it does not do anything at all :)

Perhaps you've been testing the "Use a Custom Commnand" instead of "fast typing"?

Anyways, fast typing worked fine in Dapper and Edgy's GNOME, so I still suspect this is a bug.

Cheers,
Ari

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

something weird is going on with gedit, typing eog selects the Image Viewer for example, marking unconfirmed for now

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The matching was using the icon name, that's fixed with this upload:

 eel2 (2.19.2-0ubuntu2) gutsy; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/patches/01_list_match_name.patch:
     - make typing on the open with list match the name and not the icon
       (Ubuntu: #112842)