GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 596382
Naulilus has no means to override a file suffix without overriding the whole class of apps
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:13:38 UTC
Nautilus offers the option to change the default app with which to open a *type* of document, but there is no way to get it to open one variant of a type of document, differentiated by suffix, and leave the others alone. eg I want to open all files with ending .lea with leafpad, but continue to open all other "plain text document" files with the default editor. When I go to set the option to set leafpad.lea to open with leafpad, nautilus will only give me the option to "open leafpad.lea and all other files of type "plain text document"" with leafpad. This is not necessarily a bug, but it seems like a fairly serious shortcoming. More info If I make a new text document and call it kwrite.kwr, all the same problems apply, but if I touch kwrite.kwr on the command line, and then set the resulting file to open with kwrite, the suffix kwr is then opened by default by kwrite. This would suggest that the functionality proposed here is readily available, and 'just' needs implementation - provided it is seen as desirable. It is also this latter behaviour that suggest that there might be something like a bug, since this procedure does not work for the suffix .lea - though presumably this means that .kwr is already in the system in some way, and .lea is not. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus Package: nautilus 1:2.26.2-0ubuntu2 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: nautilus Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686
*** Bug 596838 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Sorry about duplications. I thought I had already filed the bug succesfully, but I could not find it. So, clearly I did, but when I went to 'my bugs', it did not show up, only bug number 596387 showed up. And now, when I go to 'my bugs' only this bug shows up, and not bug number 596387, which I know I filed successfully just a few days ago. I guess there is probably a better way to find bugs I've filed, or do I just have to keep a record of the bug numbers I have filed. Is this a bug? Should I file it?!
*** Bug 639170 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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