nautilus doesn't show the default application to open a file in the contextual menu

[Hervé Cauwelier]

Binary package hint: nautilus

This is nautilus 1:2.21.90-0ubuntu1.

I used to right-click on a icon to see which application will open if I double click.

Now the default application is not showned, only the alternatives. I need to either decide to open the file or right-click, go in properties and click on the "open with" tab.

When there is no alternative set, you only see "open with another application". You can't tell if there really is a default application associated, or none at all.

I hope this is a bug in the beta process and not a usability choice, because now I feel like opening a file is unpredictible.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your report, that works fine for me, with which type of files you're having issues?

[Hervé Cauwelier (hcauwelier-deactivatedaccount)]

I've tested text, image and audio files. None of them list the application that would open with a double click. Even folders show "open in a new window" as the first menu entry.

Do you think it is configurable somehow and I can look into gconf?

[Hervé Cauwelier (hcauwelier-deactivatedaccount)]

I don't know if it's related but I have no icon on archive files (zip, tar, etc.), whenever I use Tango or Human icon theme. The text icon (or is it the default one?) is shown instead.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Don't really know. May you test the same with a new user created on your system?

[Hervé Cauwelier (hcauwelier-deactivatedaccount)]

I created a new user, the result is the same.

I just remembered I migrated another computer to Hardy. It shows the same behaviour.

Both computers were installed with Gutsy and migrated using "update-manager -d".

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Does it happen on the desktop too? Do you use the spatial or the browser mode? It seems to happen only when using browser, can you confirm that's the case on your installation too?

[Hervé Cauwelier (hcauwelier-deactivatedaccount)]

Right, it doesn't happen on the desktop.

Yes I use the browser mode. I went into the Nautilus preferences, "Behaviour" tab, I unchecked the "Always open in browse windows" option and refreshed the window. I had the default application back in the contextual menu. When I check back the option, I lose it again.

I'm not sure about the labels, I translated them back to English. It reads "Comportement" and "Toujours ouvrir dans des fenêtres de navigation".

I left the option checked, I don't want to open a window for each folder I browse.

Another behaviour I noticed, when I uncheck the option from an existing Nautilus window, it doesn't open a new window for each folder. It keeps behaving in browse mode.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I've sent that upstream now, http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=514526

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug has been fixed upstream now

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:2.21.91-0ubuntu1

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nautilus (1:2.21.91-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - String cleanups
    - Inhibit autorun for things we mount ourselves
    - Fix crashes and leaks (lp: #185441, #186266, #187810)
    - Only show selinux context if selinux detected
    - Default to move, not copy when dragging from trash
    - Don't autorun/automount non-local mounts
    - Fix case where we could run out of file descriptors
    - Handle drop of files on the desktop (lp: #185581, #186037)
    - Fix sensitiveness of delete from trash menu item
    - Fix open with context menu in always-use-browser mode (lp: #187991)
  * debian/control.in:
    - updated libglib requirement
  * debian/patches/90_from_svn_correct_trash_symlink_handling.patch:
    - dropped, fixed in the new version

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:18:49 +0100