Duplicate entries on "Open With" window

[Leonardo Nicolas]

SO Version: Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

The "Open With" window shows duplicate entries of several programs.

[Vish (vish)]

This should have been fixed with >
http://git.gnome.org/cgit/nautilus/commit/?id=e9d7b28a49d2afa5d67a34ef568a9e390df9a052

But seems the problem still persists.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

I'm not sure that original change was ever intended to fix this issue. g_app_info_should_show() returns TRUE or FALSE based on the combinations of the OnlyShowIn and NotShowIn keys in the desktop file, and the current desktop environment. This change hides all applications that have OnlyShowIn another desktop other than GNOME, or NotShowIn GNOME, which is separate issue to this bug

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

and also this was not a nautilus bug. its the bug of the application that show multi entries.
I found brasero's bug report: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=586040

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thank you for bringing this bug to our attention. However, a paper cut should be a small usability issue , in the default Ubuntu 9.10 install , that affects many people and is quick and easy to fix. So this bug can't be addressed as part of the project.

this is a complex issue and connot be fixed easily.
For further info about papercuts criteria , pls read > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut

Don't worry though, This bug has been marked as "invalid" ONLY in the papercuts project.

[komputes (komputes)]

Still having this issue in Lucid, reported as Bug #550006.

[Micah (ndroftheline)]

It may be difficult to fix because it must be approached form each-and-every-project, but I'd like to point out that it might not be that hard to do a quick and dirty workaround...just have some recursive check system that ensures that entires in the menu don't have the same name. I work around this very easily by deleting references in /home/<username>/.local/share/applications that are associated with the duplicate entries. I have to do this EVERY TIME I install a new program in wine, and while yes it may be a wine issue Ubuntu can issue a temporary fix for it. IE, a band-aid for a paper-cut until the cut (wine's issue) is healed. bah.