I ran into a problem where I could not open the trash on my desktop,
because nautilus would attempt to display the trash contents with the media
viewer.  To solve this problem, the user needs to delete a file from either
the .nautilus/metafiles or /usr/lib/bonobo/servers directory.  Instead,
nautilus should fallback to a well-known view such as 'View as Icons'.  


Some of the email exchange regarding this missing feature...

Dennis Cranston <dennis_cranston@yahoo.com> wrote: 
>
> Well, I have managed to screw up nautilus a little bit, and I cannot open 
> trash:// anymore.  If I double click on the Trash icon, nautilus displays 
> the error dialog, "The Media view encountered an error while starting 
> up.".  So, I have managed to associate trash:// with the media viewer.  
> 
> Instead I would like is to open trash:// with the 'View as Icon' or 'View 
> as List' viewer, but I cannot figure out how to accomplish this.  When I
> right click on the trash and select 'Open with a viewer' there is only
> one available viewer ... the 'View as Media' viewer.  And, going to the
> control center and editing the file type hasn't solved the problem
> either.  :-(
> 
> Is there a file I can modify or delete to fix this?   

Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com> wrote: 
> 
> This is an unfortunate problem with out current setup. If you manage to
> get a screwed up view for a directory there is no way to set it back.
> We should probably be falling back to a well-known view. 
> 
> A quick fix is to remove $home/.nautilus/metafiles/trash\:.xml
>
 
Dennis Cranston <dennis_cranston@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I figure I should post the solution for reference.  The offending file 
> was /usr/lib/bonobo/servers/Gst-Player-View.server.  I deleted the file 
> and nautilus opens trash:// again.