Double-clicking .desktop file makes nautilus show bogus file

[Lex Ross]

When double-clicking a .desktop file in nautilus, bogus file briefly appear and the original .desktop file "jerks" because of that. This behaviour is quite annoying. Try unpacking tor browser bundle for instance, navigate to tor-browser-en-US directory in nautilus and double-click Tor Browser icon (the .desktop file). The file briefly appears, marked as no read/write access (the little lock and cross icons attached). I could not catch it with screen capture to see what it was but you could see it for yourself. I believe that this is a temp file. To verify, follow the steps below.

1. Make sure nautilus is configured to hide hidden files and that you can reproduce the bug as has been described to this point
2. Leave nautilus window open, launch terminal and create a file named .HIDDEN in tor-browser-en-US directory (the directory active in nautilus)
3. Double-click Tor Browser icon once again in nautilus

Now you should be able to see the file in question and look up its properties in nautilus (see attached screen shot)

4. Return to the terminal and run 'ls -la' command to see that the file isn't really present in the directory.
5. Refresh nautilus window with F5 button to return to normal

I believe this behaviour in nautilus is wrong but have no idea how to fix it. Any idea?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.18.4.is.3.14.3-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-17.33-generic 4.4.6
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Apr 10 00:47:49 2016
GsettingsChanges:
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.preferences' b'executable-text-activation' b"'ask'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'823x550+457+222'"
 b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where']"
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=ru
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
modified.conffile..etc.xdg.autostart.nautilus.autostart.desktop: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.xdg.autostart.nautilus.autostart.desktop: 2016-02-10T01:22:47.461799

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Lex Ross (lross)]

Thank you Sebastien for pointing this out. My understanding is that as of now the old version of nautilus is paired with new GNOME desktop, making this bug specific to Ubuntu. There is no problem with native GNOME desktop or the Ubuntu 14.04 so I am not sure what upstream is supposed to work on. I'm afraid that mixing GNOME software is specific to Ubuntu, and the bug is the result of that integration. Correct me if I'm wrong. Anyway, the upstream bug report follows: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=764891

Thank you for your time an co-operation. And, is there a way to integrate the two bug report systems I wonder so that to make it a sort of "Report to Bugzilla" button for Launchpad bugs?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for upstreaming the issue. Could be due to the Ubuntu mix of version, though nautilus behaviour are not impacted a lot by other GNOME components (sometime by e.g a gtk update though). Launchpad can't auto-open GNOME bugs for you but it can track the status of one which is in use now on this bug.