opening the system settings preferred application dialog breaks the defaults
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GLib |
Fix Released
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Medium
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glib2.0 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Canonical Desktop Team | ||
Oneiric |
Fix Released
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High
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Canonical Desktop Team |
Bug Description
In 11.10, gedit is the default file handler for .doc files. I expected the default handler to be libreoffice-writer, which is the default handler for .docx and other filetypes used by MS Office.
gedit is pretty bad at opening .doc files (at least the ones I've tried). The effect on the user is that double-clicking a doc-file fails to display the file.
To reproduce:
* Double-click any .doc file
Alternatively:
In a terminal, 'touch foo.doc && touch foo.docx'
Double-click each foo* file; foo.doc opens in gedit and foo.docs opens in LibreOffice.
I believe this is a regression from 11.04; I first noticed it after upgrading from 11.04 to 11.10 beta 1.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: desktop-file-utils 0.18-0ubuntu8
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Sep 19 14:41:08 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta amd64 (20100901.1)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: desktop-file-utils
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-02 (17 days ago)
Related branches
Changed in glib: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in glib2.0 (Ubuntu Oneiric): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
tags: | added: iso-testing |
tags: | added: rls-mgr-o-tracking |
Changed in glib: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.