[Bug 260492] Re: opening a directory using an application change associations incorrectly

[Edward Donovan]

Oh yeah -- if you do have older .desktop files, created by nautilus, in
~/.local/share/applications, you can still have the Trash opened with
the movie player, etc.  I had to delete those, specifically an old
version of nautilus-folder-handler.desktop.

So the problem with this affecting upgrading users, rather than new
installs, remains.  That might be a wishlist bug for nautilus itself,
for newer versions to clean up those old files.  That might be more
likely than trying to do it through update-manager.

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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)

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  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.)

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