This is still a bug in December 2016. Tested in Gnome on 16.04.
Commercial programmes and Wine programmes install .desktop files. And they just end up opening gedit. I've noticed this bug for years but only reported it now. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/378783 Title: xdg-open *.desktop opens text editor To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/378783/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
