Comment 4 for bug 725189

Ah, ok. I would have expected 'unconfirmed' ;)

No, it's not just VLC, that's just the example I was doing at that moment.
 I have the same issue with other software that I use frequently in this way
such as easytags and audacity.

mp3 assignment is a good case in point; somehow it has become assigned to
mp3gain as the default app, although previews (mouse-over) still play most
mp3s. I see in the Open With list the other common mp3 players are all
listed and this makes me wonder if perhaps I just misunderstood the Open
With ... dialog box. Could it be that the "Remember this app" checkbox only
applies to the command given as "Use custom command" whereas the select box
choices are simply added to the menu until the menu is full and then
subsequently ignored?

Sure enough, if I enter the path of an app into that text box, the app I
enter becomes the default assignment!

So I suppose the UI could be made more clear, but otherwise, I guess it's
case closed :)

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Glen Luscombe <email address hidden>wrote:

> Hi teledyn,
>
> Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and make Ubuntu better. I
> hadn't had a chance to confirm the bug yet, hence it's incomplete
> marking.
>
> I have tried to replicate the bug using vlc as the 'Open With'
> application, however I can both see it in the list, and nautilus
> remembers to use it after being selected.
>
> Does this only happen with vlc? Can you reassign say a .mp3?
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/725189
>
> Title:
> OpenWith/OtherApp does not 'remember' the selected app
>
> Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: nautilus
>
> When selecting a file of some type or a directory, the Open With menu
> shows a list of apps and the option to Open Other Applications that
> gives a dialog listing all the apps (some several times) with a
> checkbox to 'Remember this application' -- so far as I can tell, it
> never remembers; I have been using VLC to open video files for as long
> as I can remember, and VLC still is not in the list, and I have never
> selected gmplayer to open video files, yet it is in that list. Also,
> in opening a directory I frequently use VLC to open DVD image
> directories, yet here again VLC has never migrated into that select
> box.
>
> Can the select list be edited or reset to reflect the choices I
> actually use?
>
> I am currently using Ubuntu 10.10, but so far as I recall this
> behaviour has been in Nautilus since the beginning.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
> Package: nautilus 1:2.32.0-0ubuntu1.3
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-25.44-generic 2.6.35.10
> Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic i686
> NonfreeKernelModules: wl
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Fri Feb 25 14:06:44 2011
> EcryptfsInUse: Yes
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=en_CA.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: nautilus
>
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