Public bug reported: The an "app" called "Home Folder" appears if one enters "home" into Unity's search (Home lens and App lenses, and no "home" folder is suggested) choosing this opens the user's home directory in Nautilus even if the user has set another file manager as their default file manager.
This seems to occur because the "Exec" line in: "/usr/share/applications /nautilus-home.desktop" (a file owned by the Nautilus package) is set to "nautilus ." rather than "xdg-open .", and because "/usr/share/applications/nautilus-home.desktop" is the "app" entry with the name "Home Folder" I suspect changing the "Exec" line to "Exec=xdg-open ." should give the expected behavior regardless of the user's choice of default file manager (I tested and found this to work with my current default: Marlin) This seems to be a somewhat known issue as Ubuntu Community Documentation exists that suggests a work around of removing/editing the "nautilus-home.desktop" file from "/usr/share/applications/" when changing default file managers, as per: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DefaultFileManager Similar changes/issues maybe be in "nautilus-browser.desktop", "nautilus-computer.desktop" and "nautilus.desktop" (though I haven't needed to edit these files personally yet) tested with Ubuntu 11.10 (Arch:AMD64), Nautilus version: 1:3.2.1-0ubuntu3.1 (oneric-updates) ** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/910343 Title: "Home Folder" launcher should launch default file manager To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/910343/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
