open with some apps not listed

Bug #1697807 reported by Stefan Helmert
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

On Ubuntu 16.04.2: Some apllictations are not listed in the Open With dialog. The wine application "Irfanview" is not listed, but the wine application "Adobe Reader 8.1" is listed correctly.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.18.4.is.3.14.3-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-79.100-generic 4.4.67
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-79-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed Jun 14 03:01:46 2017
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'sidebar-width' b'253'
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'1117x736+803+316'"
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Stefan Helmert (stefan-helmert) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. Those applications need to provide a .desktop entry to be listed, that's a bug in those software if they don't do it

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Invalid
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