I understand the report, but that's not the idea of the .desktop files
and the normal users of Ubuntu don't except to have an Open with menu
entry on their launchers, that's too power users and may confuse them.
This isn't an Nautilus Ubuntu task and you may want to fill the bug
upstream at
Thank you for your comments. This does not appear to be a bug report and
we are closing it. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it
would make more sense to raise your question in the support tracker.
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu
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Hi, reopening, because I think you don't understand me; I know how to
open .desktop files through the command line or with gedit. What I
consider a bug is the fact that nautilus doesn't offer an Open with...
option for .desktop files as it does for any other file. I hope I made
myself mere clear