GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 448058
The menu doesn't always honour mime file asociation for folders
Last modified: 2015-03-24 13:01:06 UTC
Please describe the problem: When there's a file-manager other than nautilus asociated with folders, some folders in the places menu still get opened in nautilus. The bookmarks work right though. And of course, there's the problem with the computer icon and nautilus cd burner, I'm not sure what should be done with these. Steps to reproduce: 1. Tell nautilus to open folders with some other app (for example thunar or gthumb). 2. click in home in the places menu. Actual results: The folder is opened using nautilus. Expected results: The folder should be opened with whatever it's asociated with. Does this happen every time? yes Other information:
That's because we use .desktop files from nautilus. For which menu items does it happen to you? I'd guess Home, Computer, Network, CD/DVD Burner. Any other else?
Yeah, that's about it... now I don't know about what to do with the others, I guess the better would be to keep them using nautilus as it's the only one the system can be sure that suports computer://, cd-burner and so on, but... could you at least use gnome-open in the .desktop for home? also, is there any way I can overide those menu entries from the home, without editing system-wide .desktop files? that'd be a good work-around.
The best solution for you is probably to add a bookmark to your home. I don't think it's possible to easily change this if you don't want to change the .desktop files. Ah, it might be possible to put nautilus-home.desktop in .local/share/applications/ and modify it there so that it's a link launcher, but I don't know if it will work.
Bug 338700 is opened for Home. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 338700 ***