Comment 32 for bug 667071

Re-opening, this is a quite severe bug.
When this happened to me the first time, I was like "what the hell ?"
Today, my mom filed a new bug on totem when it was actually a duplicate of this bug. You want Ubuntu to be usable by your moms right ?
I suffered from this bug no later than last Sunday, once again, I was taken by surprise, the only difference being that I knew how to fix things this time.

I booted on several virtual machines to see how other systems behaved regarding this issue.

On MacOS X "Snow Leopard", you can't do such a thing, actually you don't have the option to open a folder with another program, which is somehow disappointing because I like to open a folder with baobab or picard, but I'd rather have to drag and drop a folder than having my desktop completely broken. It is to be noted that the "Always Open With" option is unchecked by default.

On Microsoft Windows 7, it is not possible to change the way a folder is opened, you don't have the "Open with <some program> [Change...]" option you chan have on regular files. Once a again, this is a limitation, but it's not possible to break the way you open a folder.

On KDE, it's possible to break things, and change program associations on folders, but it's less likely to happen by accident since the "remember" option is unchecked by default.

I hope that everyone acknowledge this is a valid bug now, and a quite severe one.

I propose the following fixes.
 - Leave the "remember" option unchecked by default, it's what everyone else does
 - Leave the option to open a folder with another program but make it independent from nautilus / gnome-panel. Open always open with nautilus, even if you have many other software in the "open with" menu
 - So, what if you don't like nautilus and want to changed your file browser ? The default file browser should go in Preferred Applications, most likely in the "System" tab along with the default Terminal Emulator