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Bug 161004 - Autorun for mounted multimedia devices.
Autorun for mounted multimedia devices.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Desktop
2.21.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
: 149224 302459 325676 330052 336814 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-12-11 01:54 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2008-06-25 17:33 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22


Description Sebastien Bacher 2004-12-11 01:54:37 UTC 
This bug has been opened here: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/4205

"I insert it.  However, instead of launching totem when I open a dvd mounted to
the desktop, it just opens in Nautilus.  I doubt this is what should really happen."
Comment 1 Corey Burger 2005-04-25 03:23:02 UTC 
Copied from downstream bug:
With some reference to this blog post:

http://www.gnome.org/~fherrera/blog//Applications_instead_of_commands

I think this really should be a deeper issue.  I think it would be very helpful
if Gnome had an idea of the preferred dvd/other video disc player, and the
prefered audio-cd player, in the same way as it knows the preferred browser etc.
 This would mean that all gnome-volume-manager would need to ask is whether to
play the disc, not what command to run.  The same would then be true of nautilus:

-------------
Play Video
Open
Browse Folder
-------------
etc

(I don't feel inclined to open a b.g.o account at the moment; if anyone agrees
with me, please send this upstream.)
Comment 2 Sebastien Bacher 2005-05-05 16:52:35 UTC 
*** Bug 302459 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Fabio Bonelli 2006-02-06 11:15:23 UTC 
*** Bug 330052 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Fabio Bonelli 2006-04-01 19:05:19 UTC 
*** Bug 336814 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Duncan Lithgow 2007-08-13 10:05:36 UTC 
Wow, this bug is old! I've added a comment downstream in Launchpad (Ubuntu)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/10760
Comment 6 Josselin Mouette 2007-12-25 10:44:02 UTC 
I am pretty sure this used to work. Did something change that broke this behaviour?
Comment 7 Sven Arvidsson 2007-12-30 22:28:15 UTC 
I guess the best way to get the preferred movie/audio player would be through either gnome-volume-manager or through preferred applications.

But gnome-volume-manager is probably an unintuitive place to look for this, and preferred applications only know the concept of a "multimedia player" which isn't useful here.
Comment 8 Cosimo Cecchi 2008-01-18 15:46:23 UTC 
This is going to be fixed by David Zeuthen work on Nautilus autorun. CC-ing him.
Comment 9 Cosimo Cecchi 2008-01-18 15:49:21 UTC 
*** Bug 325676 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Cosimo Cecchi 2008-01-22 16:50:51 UTC 
*** Bug 149224 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Sebastien Bacher 2008-06-25 13:23:35 UTC 
could be considered fixed now since the nautilus dialog has a button which makes easy to start the video player
Comment 12 Cosimo Cecchi 2008-06-25 17:33:14 UTC 
I guess so, all the other concerns about how autorun is done should go in separate bugs, closing as FIXED.