Bug 6344

Summary:	directory alias breaks nautilus association
Product:	shared-mime-info	Reporter:	Götz Waschk <goetz.waschk>
Component:	freedesktop.org.xml	Assignee:	Jonathan Blandford <jrb>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTOURBUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high	CC:	bugzilla
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Götz Waschk 2006-03-22 18:32:21 UTC

In shared-mime-info 0.17 the alias x-directory/normal for inode/directory was
added. This breaks the associations for the directory type in nautilus 2.14.0.
Previously with shared-mime-info 0.16 you could associate directories with
applications and open them using the "Open With" menu. Removing this alias from
freedesktop.xml reenables this.

Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2006-07-09 05:03:23 UTC

I don't quite understand what you mean here. Could you be a bit more precise in
your description?

Comment 2 Götz Waschk 2006-07-09 10:11:16 UTC

In nautilus you can associate file types with applications in directories, e.g.
by adding 
MimeType=x-directory/normal;
to a desktop file of an application.

The alias x-directory/normal for inode/directory breaks this behaviour and the
applications won't appear in nautilus' "open with" menu anymore.

Comment 3 Sebastian Dröge (slomo) 2007-01-22 16:31:39 UTC

Reopening as the required information was given...

Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2007-01-23 01:42:19 UTC

This looks like a nautilus bug to me, where it would special case
x-directory/normal. Please bring this up with the Nautilus developers.

Comment 5 Götz Waschk 2007-01-23 01:50:56 UTC

Just for reference, this was reported to the GNOME guys:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335161

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