Scripts context menu option not showing unless an object is chosen

Bug #1349661 reported by John Kirk
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

When right clicking in a directory the "scripts" option should always appear.
When right clicking in a directory the "scripts" option does not appear unless a file is chosen first.

In past versions of Ubuntu the "Scripts" context menu option would appear when one or more scripts were executable in the proper location. Now, the "Scripts" context menu option only appears if the scriptsis executable, in the proper location AND the user chooses a file or directory before right click. The "Scripts" context menu option cannot be used "in" a directory now, but must be preformed "on" a file. This is counter-intuitive for operations like "Open foo here..." or "Browse as root..." since those are "in" operations, not "on" operations. I do understand the new location is ~/local/share/nautilus/scripts and they must be executable.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-32.57-generic 3.13.11.4
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Jul 28 20:29:17 2014
GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified', 'date_accessed', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where']"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-29 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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John Kirk (jkirk777) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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David Cavallini (david-cavallini-gmail) wrote :

This regression is still there in Ubuntu 16.04 / Gnome Files 3.14.3.
While it still works as expected in Nemo.

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