GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 711523
'Open folder' should launch nautilus explicitly
Last modified: 2021-05-26 09:26:53 UTC
Currently baobab is using the default handler for inode/directory. If nautilus is uninstalled, baobab itself becomes that default handler, which leads to the surprising result that using 'Open folder' will just change the view in baobab. I think it would be better to make that context menu item be an explicit 'Open folder in nautilus', and disable it if nautilus is not present.
Maybe we could detect if the default handler is baobab itself, and disable the menu item in that case. Otherwise I don't know how to detect if the inode/directory handler is a "file manager" or something different.
Yes, detecting if it is baobab itself and handling that case would be great. I'd like to keep it working with thunar/nemo/etc
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