Ubuntu
gedit package

gedit has two .desktop files, causing duplicate "open with" entries

Bug #1574121 reported by Cavia Porcellus
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gedit (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
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Bug Description

Installing gedit (3.18.3) on Ubuntu 16.04 causes two .desktop entries to be created in /usr/share/applications: org.gnome.gedit.desktop and gedit.desktop. This causes two "open with" entries in Nautilus/Files. Only one should be installed.

Deleting gedit.desktop currently serves as a workaround.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Indeed, upstream renamed the .desktop but we added compatibility ones for user configs on upgrade, the other one is using NoDisplay but nautilus doesn't respect that...

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

one solution would be to strip the Mimetype= line from the compat entry

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