nautilus file association not working in 10.04

[Peter]

Binary package hint: nautilus

nautilus file association not working in 10.04
For example opening a *.swf that is a shockwave flash file and indicating that firefox is the default application to use and to remember that application in future it opens with firefox correctly but doesnt use firefox next time it is opened.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: nautilus 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri May 7 11:22:30 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_NZ.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus

[Andrius Jurkus (wolas)]

same i cant make gvim default for plain text files with nautilus

[Martin Sin (martin-sin)]

I can confirm this. I have tried to change default video player - right click on video file - Open with another application (or something like this, I don't have English version of Gnome), I have checked "Remember this application ...", but Nautilus remember nothing.

Only way to change files association is: Right click on file - Properties (at bottom of local menu) and Open with (choose right application). This is very boring bug...

[Peter (nitep)]

One method still works :-

Right click on say an SWF file
Click on properties
Click on open with
select Firefox (or whatever you want)

Click on close and all files of that type will be opened by your chosen application for that user in future.

[Jonas (jonas-f-henriksen)]

Two other aspects of this:
1. I have set geany as my default text editor for php-files. It works on local files, but not on remote files (via sftp) where files are always opened with gedit
2. Certain files, even though they are normal text files, without a file associations ( ex. .pem - file containing a private key ) are not opened by the default editor, but instead you get to choose which application to open the file with.
3. Any text file with unknown filetype on a remote location presents the "Choose application..." thing.

( hmmm, arguably point 2 and three are "features", even though they dont appear as such. MS Windows has always had this "feature" for all unknown file types, while ubuntu has traditionally been a lot better in this regard. )

Jonas:))

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.