[Dapper] Incorrect default application association in Nautilus

[Patrick Clément-Bonhomme]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Description of Problem:
On a default installation, Nautilus tries to open a PSD (Photoshop Document) file with "Image Viewer" (Eye of GNOME). Unfortunately, Image Viewer does not support PSD.

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Get a PSD file. Alternatively, you can create a new one with The GIMP.
2. Open a file browser window and go to the folder with the PSD file.
3. Double-click on the PSD file.

Actual Results:
The wait cursor shows up for about 15 seconds, then nothing happens.

Expected Results:
The file should be open by an application supporting the PSD format, like The GIMP.

How often does this happen?
Always.

Additional Information:
This issue is easily fixed by going in the Properties of a PSD file, then setting the right application in the "Open With" tab.

That said, the user should not have to correct the association manually on his shiny, new installation of Ubuntu. The default file association for PSD should be The GIMP.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. That happens because /usr/share/applications/eog.desktop lists "image/x-psd" to the MimeType= list, either eog is supposed to open that format or the .desktop should not list it, in any case that's an eog bug, reassigning. I've forwarded the issue upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343052

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

fixed upstream, they dropped that mimetype from the desktop file list

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Fixed with those uploads to dapper-updates:

 eog (2.14.3-0ubuntu2) dapper-updates; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/patches/90_from_cvs_dont_open_psd.patch:
     - patch from CVS, don't list "image/x-psd" mimetype since eog doesn't open
       that format (Ubuntu: #46179)

 desktop-file-utils (0.10-1ubuntu14) dapper-updates; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/defaults.list:
     - set gimp as default application for "image/x-psd" (Ubuntu: #46179)

[Patrick Clément-Bonhomme (patrick.cb)]

Thanks for fixing such a trivial bug, but those packages don't seem available in dapper-updates yet.

Did I missed something?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you have the versions of the packages mentionned by the previous comment? maybe one of them is still waiting to be accepted, upload to dapper-updates are moderated

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

fixed to edgy too

[Patrick Clément-Bonhomme (patrick.cb)]

Ah! I thought it passed moderation, since the fix came out at the beginning of the month. I am not aware of the policies for updates.

I'll confirm the correction of the bug once the fixed packages are hitting the repos.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

 eog (2.14.3-0ubuntu2) dapper-updates; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/patches/90_from_cvs_dont_open_psd.patch:
     - patch from CVS, don't list "image/x-psd" mimetype since eog doesn't open
       that format (Ubuntu: #46179)

I rejected this old upload, since it hasn't gone through the usual SRU process, and TBH this bug does not really warrant an SRU. But if you think it is appropriate, please start the SRU process.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

 desktop-file-utils (0.10-1ubuntu14) dapper-updates; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/defaults.list:
     - set gimp as default application for "image/x-psd" (Ubuntu: #46179)

Likewise.

[tylerjwilk (tylerjwilk)]

This bug also exists in Ubuntu 7.10.

Double click on a .psd opens unsuccessfully in eog.

Also right clicking shows the default action as open with Image viewer (eog) which obviously fails again.

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for posting this bug.

Ubuntu 7.10 is in End of Life status. Please update and provide detailed error report.

[Patrick Clément-Bonhomme (patrick.cb)]

This bug has been fixed in 10.04 LTS.

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The version of Ubuntu you're reporting this issue on is in End of Life status, and newer versions have fixed this issue. You can learn more about this at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases