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nautilus is missing 'browse to' option for 'open with other application'

Bug #984930 reported by Rocko on 2012-04-18

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #853061: New "Open with" in right click dialogue box does not allow custom commands. Edit Remove

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This bug affects 20 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	nautilus (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

When I select a file in nautilus and use the right-click menu to choose either 'open with other application' or 'properties / open with', nautilus presents a list of suggested applications. In previous versions of Ubuntu at this point it was also possible to select an application by browsing to it, eg in this way I could select /usr/bin/avidemux, which currently does not appear in the list of suggested applications even though I have it installed.

However, in Ubuntu 12.04 there is no browse option, so it is not possible to choose an application that does not appear in the list. This looks like a regression.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.4.1-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 3.4.0-rc2-git-20120408.1402 x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Apr 18 22:02:38 2012
GsettingsChanges:
org.gnome.nautilus.window-state geometry '1033x671+51+166'
org.gnome.nautilus.window-state maximized true
org.gnome.nautilus.window-state sidebar-width 191
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120201.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Rocko (rockorequin) wrote on 2012-04-18:

#1

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2012-04-18

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-04-27:

#2

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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mandarke (mandarke) wrote on 2012-04-30:

#3

why was this feature removed?

was it done to force the poor application choices onto us?

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Rocko (rockorequin) wrote on 2012-04-30:

#4

My guess is that Gnome (the upstream desktop) removed it as part of their project of dumbing-down the user interface.

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aleandro (aleandrodasilva) wrote on 2012-09-30:

#5

Hello. I had a problem to add a custom command linking to calibre to open the .epub format of the ebooks. I found many sophisticated workarounds in the web but the simplest way to solve is to install thunar. Thunar mantained the old good interface allowing to choose the wanted command.

Why was this feature removed? It was really bad to dumb down nautilus in that way. I hope developers reintroduce the possibility to choose a custom command/application.

The ubuntu forums are plenty of people asking to do that simple action that was possible with all older distributions.

In my opinion the importance should be elevated to medium.

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Samarth Mathur (samarth-math) wrote on 2012-11-09:

#6

Also, the feature to add a custom command was pretty amazing.

Ubuntu's power is in it's customizability. It's a good idea to make it universally usable, but not at the cost of functionality.

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