It used to work, but now I'm trying to associate gedit with a .contact (xml) file and it won't switch from Google Chrome as the default.
Right-mouse on .contact file
Click "Open-With"
Select "gedit" (related applications)
Click "Set as default"
The highlighted selection switches to the current Default Application that is Google-Chrome and doesn't switch to gedit.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.14.2-0ubuntu9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-20.20-generic 3.19.8
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun May 31 16:06:50 2015
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
GsettingsChanges:
b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-visible-columns' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified', 'mime_type']"
b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'use-tree-view' b'true'
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 2015-05-31 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
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)
The issue is with Google-Chrome.
I purged Chrome, rebooted and was able to set the default for the xml file to gedit.
After installing chrome again, the same behavior of chrome stealing the default and not allowing any change continued.