Public bug reported:
Up until a few hours ago I was using Ubuntu 16.04.
When right-clicking on a file in Nautilus, the context menu used to have
a submenu, right next to the "open with <default>" option, called "open
with...", where the items in the submenu were the most common
applications.
Half of the times I open files with some of those (but the other half I
do open the same file with the default application, so changing the
default is not good enough for me, also I don't like to do that). So,
having the submenu was very useful to me (and millions of other users).
After upgrading to 18.10 and now 19.10, that submenu is gone.
Now you have to click on "open with another application", wait for a completely
separate, bloated popup to load and show up somewhere else, and then select the
application to open the file with.
This looks like it can only have been done by design, so I guess it's
yet another idiotic decision made by the lunatics that maintain
Nautilus, who clearly don't give two minutes of thought to what they are
doing.
This is ridiculous and has to be reverted. Since it has been proven that
upstream Gnome developers can't be trusted to have any common sense and
hence are very unlikely to be inclined to fix this, if Ubuntu insists in
keeping Nautilus as the chosen default file manager, Ubuntu should patch
this.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.34.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-62.56-generic 5.3.18
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-62-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.9
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Jul 12 15:21:02 2020
GsettingsChanges:
b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'sidebar-width' b'192'
b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'use-tree-view' b'true'
b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-visible-columns' b"['name', 'size',
'type', 'date_modified']"
b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size',
'type', 'date_modified', 'date_accessed', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions',
'mime_type', 'where']"
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-11 (2465 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to eoan on 2020-07-12 (0 days ago)
usr_lib_nautilus:
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug eoan third-party-packages
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Restore the "open with" submenu
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