An update for the record: People were still reporting this into 2011, though this was marked fixed. (Except for a wish for upgrades to clean up cruft under ~/)
It was happening to me too, and has now been fixed again: see bug 797000. Permanently, I hope -- it seems we've replayed this problem. 'nautilus-folder-handler.desktop' is installed under /usr, and, with a clean config under .local, you can open folders with other apps, like media players. But the Trash, and places that should be opened with Nautilus, get Nautilus, and not those other apps, anymore. So I think the later comments were valid, and have finally been addressed. Like I said, hope it stays that way! :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/260492 Title: opening a directory using an application change associations incorrectly Status in Deleted: Invalid Status in Nautilus: Fix Released Status in “gnome-panel” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “gnome-panel” source package in Intrepid: Fix Released Status in “nautilus” source package in Intrepid: Fix Released Status in “update-manager” source package in Intrepid: Invalid Bug description: TESTCASE: * using hardy and upgrading to intrepid - right click on a directory in nautilus - select the open with menu entry - select an application in the list, eog for example try opening a directory in the places menu, nautilus is used, upgrade to intrepid, eog is being used now * using intrepid and upgrading to the fixed version - right click on a directory in nautilus - select the properties menu entry - go to the open with tab and set an application to be the default there, eog for example try opening a directory in the places menu eog is being used now * upgrading to the candidate version should make nautilus be used again in both scenarios (you need to restart your session to get the new version running) --------------------------------------------------- After using 'upgrade-manager -d" to Intrepid, something during the upgrade prosses unintentionally hijacked our configurations to launch various programs in-place of nautilus for opening folders from the places menu. I do not believe that the package 'gnome-panel' is necessarily at fault, but don't have a clue where the root cause is as I don't understand how the places menu works, however Tuomas Aavikko's workaround gave me success in fixing the issue: Right click on a folder in nautilus ->Open with app-> File Manager Now I can open my home folder from the places menu again. So it seems that there is a file extension for folders that is being hijacked by the installation / upgrade of other packages such as VLC, gthumb, totem, amarok, kaffeine, Konqueror, Archiver Manager. (compiled from comments and duplicate of this bug.) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gratissip/+bug/260492/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
