Naulilus has no means to override a file suffix without overriding the whole class of apps

[Andrew]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Nautilus offers the option to change the default app with which to open a *type* of document, but there is no way to get it to open one variant of a type of document, differentiated by suffix, and leave the others alone.
eg I want to open all files with ending .lea with leafpad, but continue to open all other "plain text document" files with the default editor.
When I go to set the option to set leafpad.lea to open with leafpad, nautilus will only give me the option to "open leafpad.lea and all other files of type "plain text document"" with leafpad.
This is not necessarily a bug, but it seems like a fairly serious shortcoming.
More info
If I make a new text document and call it kwrite.kwr, all the same problems apply, but if I touch kwrite.kwr on the command line, and then set the resulting file to open with kwrite, the suffix kwr is then opened by default by kwrite. This would suggest that the functionality proposed here is readily available, and 'just' needs implementation - provided it is seen as desirable. It is also this latter behaviour that suggest that there might be something like a bug, since this proceedure does not work for the suffix .lea - though presumably this means that .kwr is already in the system in some way, and .lea is not.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
Package: nautilus 1:2.26.2-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Andrew (andrew-1dtv)]

Didn't understand this upstream situation before. I have now filed the bug with gnome bugzilla as you suggest.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Could you give us the bug number?

[Andrew (andrew-1dtv)]

Bug number is Bug 596387. It has been marked

Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: FIXED

Full response:

Dennis Cranston 2009-09-29 05:42:51 UTC

Thanks for the bug report.

Starting with version 2.27.1 of gnome-search-tool, the application was ported
from gnome-vfs to GIO. That port should address your default application
issues. Also, an "Open With" item was added in the popup menu.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the gnome-utils bug seems different than the nautilus one there

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you describe again what is your issue exactly?

[Andrew (andrew-1dtv)]

Wrong bug. Sorry. New at this, and bit short of time. Evidently my attempt to file that bug did not complete properly, but the *other* bug I then filed did.
Anyway.
I've now filed it successfully, description identical to the one above here.
Bug number is
 Bug 596838
Sorry if I wasted your time with that.
Hope this is all useful.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

There is no problem thank you for sending the bug to GNOME