.pptx and .docx are by default opened by Archive Manager

[Aditya V]

Using Ubuntu 11.10,
nautilus 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu5

.pptx and .docx are by default set to open with Archive Manager. If a file is downloaded and directly opened, this can cause confusion for some. This occurred after the upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10 and was not the case before the upgrade. This is a major inconvenience for me and - I'm sure - many others, though it is easy to manually fix by right clicking on the file, going to properties -> open with -> click the radio button for LibreOffice -> set as default (near the bottom-left of the window).

Office 2007+ files are being opened by Archive Manager by default as opposed to being opened by LibreOffice, which one would expect.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.4-kroqernel+ x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 7f98738f6663bda1ae1c2900a3a1db71
CheckboxSystem: 577751a334467e78ed04da699e5debc9
Date: Sun Oct 16 20:57:52 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-15 (1 days ago)

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 873470 , so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.