opening a directory using an application change associations incorrectly
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Nautilus |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
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gnome-panel (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Michael Vogt | ||
Intrepid |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
nautilus (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs | ||
Intrepid |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Wishlist
|
Unassigned | ||
Intrepid |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
TESTCASE:
* using hardy and upgrading to intrepid
- right click on a directory in nautilus
- select the open with menu entry
- select an application in the list, eog for example
try opening a directory in the places menu, nautilus is used, upgrade to intrepid, eog is being used now
* using intrepid and upgrading to the fixed version
- right click on a directory in nautilus
- select the properties menu entry
- go to the open with tab and set an application to be the default there, eog for example
try opening a directory in the places menu eog is being used now
* upgrading to the candidate version should make nautilus be used again in both scenarios (you need to restart your session to get the new version running)
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After using 'upgrade-manager -d" to Intrepid, something during the upgrade prosses unintentionally hijacked our configurations to launch various programs in-place of nautilus for opening folders from the places menu.
I do not believe that the package 'gnome-panel' is necessarily at fault, but don't have a clue where the root cause is as I don't understand how the places menu works, however Tuomas Aavikko's workaround gave me success in fixing the issue:
Right click on a folder in nautilus ->Open with app-> File Manager
Now I can open my home folder from the places menu again. So it seems that there is a file extension for folders that is being hijacked by the installation / upgrade of other packages such as VLC, gthumb, totem, amarok, kaffeine, Konqueror, Archiver Manager. (compiled from comments and duplicate of this bug.)
description: | updated |
Changed in nautilus: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in nautilus: | |
status: | Triaged → Confirmed |
Changed in nautilus: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in nautilus: | |
status: | Fix Released → Confirmed |
Changed in update-manager: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Changed in update-manager: | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
Changed in update-manager: | |
status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
Changed in gnome-panel: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
milestone: | none → intrepid-updates |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in gnome-panel: | |
assignee: | nobody → mvo |
Changed in update-manager: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
Changed in nautilus: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in gnome-panel: | |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in gnome-panel: | |
milestone: | intrepid-updates → none |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
Changed in gnome-panel: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Changed in gratissip: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Fix Released → Confirmed |
Changed in nautilus: | |
status: | Fix Released → Confirmed |
Changed in gnome-panel (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Fix Released → Confirmed |
Changed in gnome-panel (Ubuntu Intrepid): | |
status: | Fix Released → Confirmed |
Changed in nautilus: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Changed in gnome-panel (Ubuntu Intrepid): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Changed in gnome-panel (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Changed in nautilus: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
thank you for your bug report. are you sure you did assign this software to directories in nautilus?