[12.04] lubuntu: "open-dialog" is confused when there are different filetypes for the same application

[Michael Basse]

riqht click on a file is opening a windows with "open, open with, copy, properties" and so on. if i have 2 *.doc files, i can mark them and then click right on a file and choose "open" and libreoffice will open both of the files. But that option is missing when i mark a *.doc and a *.docx. Both are set to libreoffice as the mime-handler but the menu is not handling different file-extentions which are opened with the same application, so there is just the option "open with" instead of open, so i have to select libreoffice from a list

the same goes for *.png and *.jpg., *.mp3 and *.wav and so on.

So this should be fixed so that me menu is offering "open" when all selected files are opened with the same program, even when the file-extension is different

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: lxde (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-7.13-generic 3.2.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-7-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jan 2 01:32:17 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110426)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lxde-common
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-12-04 (28 days ago)

[Michael Basse (michael-alpha-unix)]

Upstream-Bug created. Lubuntu-Team set on CC.

I was only testing 12.04 with that, i dont know if other versions are also affected. Also i did not test if kde, gnome3, unity and xfce4 are also affected by that issue but i guess its not a global problem but specific to the used desktop, so i created this bug against lubuntu only

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

It's a problem in the filemanager itself, reassign to pcmanfm

[Michael Basse (michael-alpha-unix)]

fixed upstream and in lubuntu 12.04

[Michael Basse (michael-alpha-unix)]

just for the record:

also working now if you have foo.pdf and foo.doc. Open-dialog is using pdf viewer and libreoffice