Public bug reported: I have spent a very long time trying to use any kind of GUI tool to configure a file association in Ubuntu Gnome, with no success.
I finally was forced to find old .desktop files from a previous desktop backup which I'd manually authored before. The requirement is simple - use a specific script in a known path to open PDFs However, there doesn't appear to be any usable mechanism for doing this, principally because Nautilus (now?) filters the possible applications to launch a specific file according to the Mime type, yet there is no way to specify the Mime type association for a new application aside from manually editing text files and forcing update of the desktop databases directly. Alacarte should ideally anticipate this. Given the simplicity of this requirement, and how commonly it's likely to be needed, this is a major oversight for the function of Alacarte. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: alacarte 3.7.90-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.10.0-6.17-generic 3.10.3 Uname: Linux 3.10.0-6-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.11-0ubuntu1 Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Jul 31 20:57:53 2013 MarkForUpload: True PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: alacarte UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: alacarte (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 saucy -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to alacarte in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1207079 Title: alacarte: no user journey for associating filetype with new binary script To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alacarte/+bug/1207079/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs