"Open with other application" requires full path of applications in path

[Leandro]

The sequence of screenshots illustrate the behaviour. Here I exemplify that I want to
open a file with "gedit" which, of course, is my path, and loadable with Alf-F2, for instance.

However, if I choose "Open with another application", I go to a selection screen that doesn't
have the intelligence of the Alt-F2 dialog, and I need to put the full path of the application
in order to be able to open the file. In this case, it would be "/usr/bin/gedit". Of course, new
users won't know this and won't be able to open the file with this text editor.

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. I have classified this bug as a bug in nautilus.

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport, either via the appropriate application's "Help -> Report a Problem" menu or using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

Thank you for helping with making Ubuntu and its file manager Nautilus better by reporting this bug. I'm marking this as Triaged since I can confirm this and it's clear what needs to be done. Since I feel this is a usability issue rather than a feature request I'm setting the status to Low.
I'm checking upstream to see if it has already been reported there and will create a new report there if necessary.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Nautilus has nothing to do with this dialog. In fact, this is a long standing Firefox bug, and is reported separately at bug 18995

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

I'm unmarking this bug as a duplicate since it is also an issue with the "Open with" dialogue of Nautilus.

(A small issue: please don't mark duplicates as Invalid because strictly speaking they aren't Invalid. Furthermore, it creates the need for another action when unmarking a bug as duplicate.)

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

The screenshots for the original bug here clearly show the Firefox Open with dialog, which is bug 18995!

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

We've resolved this on IRC now - the Nautilus dialog doesn't appear to have this issue, and the dialog shown here is the Firefox one.