nautilus opens a new window if clicked on its unity icon even when another nautilus window is open with ntfs drive folder open

[Jobin Raju George]

I could not make the title shorter and clearer, please forgive.

How to reproduce this bug:

On a freshly booted system running Ubuntu 14.04 having unity as its desktop-manager and having at least one NTFS partition on its internal hard disk, do the following:

1) Open a nautilus window and mount an NTFS partition and keep any of the folders on the NTFS partition open in this window.
2) Now open any other application(I opened firefox) and then go back to the nautilus window by pressing on nautilus' unity icon(which should have a small arrow to the left of the nautilus icon, indicating it is already open). Do not use Alt+Tab to go back to nautilus- this works fine.

3) This will open a new nautilus window with the home folder(or whichever is the default path to open when a new nautilus window is opened) and bring the originally opened folder on the NTFS partition.

What I expected to happen?

Clicking on an already opened nautilus window will open(bring to foreground) the folder on the NTFS partition.

What actually happened?

A new window with my home folder as its default opening path, opened, giving me two nautilus windows opened.

lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (development branch)
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty

 apt-cache policy nautilus
nautilus:
  Installed: 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu8
  Candidate: 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu8
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu8 0
        500 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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ApportVersion: 2.13.3-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CurrentDesktop: Unity
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-03-17 (7 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140316)
Package: unity 7.1.2+14.04.20140320.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-19.39-generic 3.13.6
Tags: trusty
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-19-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip kvm libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo www-data
_MarkForUpload: True

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[Sami Jaktholm (sjakthol)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1170647, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.