nautilus actions %M doesn't work

[Mike Durham]

Binary package hint: nautilus

When trying to pass a directory to an App "--path=%M" it doesn't work. The %M (directory) is passed to the App as a seperate arg.
What should be:
App
path=/home/mike/Graphics/ArtDeco

gets passed as:

App
path=
/home/mike/Graphics/ArtDeco

Therefore the path= becomes meaningless and it always assume the home directory.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 26 17:17:26 2010
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
 firefox-branding 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
 abroswer N/A
 abrowser-branding N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100113)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_AU.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

any news about this? did you sent it upstream? may you tell us the bug number there? Thanks in advance.

[Mike Durham (mdurhamesq)]

I couldn't register on the Gnome Bugtracker web site, I never received a password or anything by email after trying to register.
It shouldn't be this hard just to report a bug!

[Bruno Girin (brunogirin)]

I managed to reproduce the bug so marking it as confirmed and I will forward it upstream tomorrow.

[Mike Durham (mdurhamesq)]

Ok Bruno that's great. I hope you have better luck than me, though maybe you are already registered?

[Bruno Girin (brunogirin)]

Mike, yes I am already registered with the Gnome Bugzilla, which helps :-)

The bug has now been reported upstream and you can follow its progress here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=617058

You will also find attached a small python script I used as an action command to reproduce the problem, as explained in the upstream bug report.

[Mike Durham (mdurhamesq)]

Thanks Bruno, I'll follow it. It's strange, but exactly the same bug was in a previous version of Ubuntu. Can't remember which one it was now.

[Mike Durham (mdurhamesq)]

Any idea when this will be in the repo?

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

On 22 May 2010 08:50, Mike Durham <email address hidden> wrote:
> Any idea when this will be in the repo?
>
> --
> nautilus actions %M doesn't work
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/570060
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I think this fix will be included in the new release of Nautilus
Actions that will be included with Ubuntu Maverick.

[Mike Durham (mdurhamesq)]

Thanks. It seems a bit odd that the LTS 10.04 won't get it. 3 years with a faulty Nautilus Actions?

[Mike Durham (mdurhamesq)]

> Changed in nautilus-actions:
> status: In Progress → Fix Released
To where was this fix released?

[Mike Durham (mdurhamesq)]

Why doesn't 10.04 get the fix for this bug? How can I get it?
Thanks.

[Mike Durham (mdurhamesq)]

Is there any chance that this will be corrected in Lucid or Maverick? Is it really that hard?

[Mike Durham (mdurhamesq)]

On 19th May 2010, it was written:
"Changed in nautilus-actions:
status: In Progress → Fix Released"

So where is the "Fix"?

Now we get:
"importance: Unknown → Medium "

What does that mean, what's going on?

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

The changes you saw to the bug statuses were done by Launchpad to reflect the status and importance of this bug upstream, in the bug tracker of the Nautilus Actions developers. The bug was marked as Medium and Fix Released there.

The reason why the bug for Ubuntu is not marked as Fix Released yet is because this bug was fixed in Nautilus Actions 2.30.3, whereas Ubuntu Maverick provides 2.30.2-1, an older release.

[Mike Durham (mdurhamesq)]

Thank you very much Sense Hofstede, that makes sense (no pun intended) of a fairly complicated process. So does this mean that It will never work in 10.04 or 10.10?
Mike

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

We might see the latest version of this package in either one of those releases, but that depends on the people responsible for maintaining the packages of Nautilus Actions in Debian and, to a lesser extent, Ubuntu. I cannot say anything cerrtain about it.

[Kevin (scooby-2)]

What a great shame that, almost two years down the line, Ubuntu 10.04LTS installs Nautilus Actions Configuration Tool version 2.30.2 with no option to install a later version in Synaptic Package Manager. I have spent two evenings trying to use the %M variable - learning from scratch, eventually finding and installing a script which shows the the parameters accepted by NACT, and then discovering this bug. I think it's disgraceful that Ubuntu of this vintage allows the installation of broken software.

BTW the thread here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9607212
ends with a link to instructions on how to install Nautilus Actions Configuration Tool v2.30.3 on Ubuntu 10.04 - but the link is broken. If anybody knows how to do this it would be useful to post it here.

[Kevin (scooby-2)]

Follow up to my previous post - Instructions to install v2.30.3

First, remove the installed version:
Open Synaptic Package Manager and enter "nautilus actions" in the search box. On my screen the top entry was for nautilus, the second for nautilus-actions 2.30.2-0ubuntu1. Right-click this and select "Mark for removal." (Don't select "Mark for complete removal" or you will lose any actions you have written and/or installed.) Click Apply.

Then install the new version:
Paste the following link into your browser to
https://launchpad.net/~ferramroberto/+archive/linuxfreedomlucid/+build/1787278/+files/nautilus-actions_2.30.3-1%7Elffl%7Elucid%7Eppa_i386.deb
This will hopefully download the file "nautilus-actions_2.30.3-1~lffl~lucid~ppa_i386.deb." Save it to your desktop (or wherever) and just double-click it when it's finished downloading. Ignore the message about the official version that's available through the Ubuntu channel.