Gnome-applets 3.36.2: drivemount applet cannot open nautilus

[Sebastian Geiger]

[Impact]
The nautilus desktop file shipped in GNOME has been renamed by nautilus [1]. The drivemount applet is still using the old desktop file id which prevents it from opening nautilus.

Fixed in:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-applets/-/commit/5445406a1257bc33b3b531d398748e311c6d93f6

[Test Case]
- Add drivemount to the panel.
- Click on a mounted item to open the context menu.
- Click on "Open <Folder>" to open nautilus for that folder.
- Without this fix the drivemount applet will display a error dialog with the message: "Cannot start nautilus file manager. Cannot find nautilus.".

[Regression Potential]
None. This only changes the desktop file id string used to open nautilus. The worst that could happen is that the drivemount applet is still unable to open nautilus after the change, which would not be different from the current status.

[1]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/commit/a5617016d3e5d8e32ce02708f2c08d09926141d1

[Sebastian Geiger (lanoxx)]

This was fixed in commit https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-applets/-/commit/37f11c22511e112777d59cb34d5d7733508c31b4

This is part of the GNOME Applets 3.36.3 release.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Sebastian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-applets into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-applets/3.36.4-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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[Sebastian Geiger (lanoxx)]

I can confirm that this bug is fixed with version 3.36.4-0ubuntu1 that is currently in proposed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-applets - 3.36.4-0ubuntu1

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gnome-applets (3.36.4-0ubuntu1) focal; urgency=medium

  * New upstream bugfix release (LP: #1884383).
    - Fixes window-picker issues when a window is moved between monitors
      (LP: #1879140).
    - Fixes for drivemount: properly clear errors, and update Nautilus
      desktop file name (LP: #1884381).
  * Drop the netspeed patch, included in the new release.

 -- Dmitry Shachnev <email address hidden> Sun, 21 Jun 2020 14:01:58 +0300

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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