that seems buggy, what is setting that variable? it should be set by gnome-session (if you use it) to whatever session you use, that's what we use to specify behaviours for GNOME and Unity specific differences. That seems a bug in your environment/whatever sets it for you rather than one in nautilus
> On my session, XDG_CURRENT_ DESKTOP= GNOME
that seems buggy, what is setting that variable? it should be set by gnome-session (if you use it) to whatever session you use, that's what we use to specify behaviours for GNOME and Unity specific differences. That seems a bug in your environment/ whatever sets it for you rather than one in nautilus