Nautilus *.txt file behaviour
Bug #425166 reported by
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This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #14335: nautilus wants to execute all text files on vfat and ntfs drives.
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Nautilus |
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One Hundred Papercuts |
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Low
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obsolete |
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Undecided
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devicekit-disks (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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nautilus (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
By default, when user try to do such a simple thing like view a text file by double-clicking, he is confronted by many confusing options like "Run in Terminal", "Display" or "Run"... Most of people will look at screen thinking something like What the hell? What should i do now? I just want to see that text file, nothing more...
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
assignee: | David Siegel (djsiegel) → nobody |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
milestone: | round-10 → round-3 |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
assignee: | Sebastien Bacher (seb128) → nobody |
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
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I have seen new Windows users really get confused over this behavior.
But changing the default behavior is not the way to do it.
I would say adding an exclusion for .txt files would be ideal.
Since .txt is the default text file in Windows. We need make the system aware that txt is *not* an executable