Upon further testing it seems the problem is more subtle than I thought,
and is probably present in Fedora. I'll have to do more testing there to
see.
It seems as if things are fine in Ubuntu if you change the default
application for a filetype to one of Ubuntu's pre-installed apps.
Here's how to reproduce in Ubuntu 8.04 using Abiword and VLC as an
example:
1. install Abiword or VLC.
2. Go to Properties of a sample .txt or .doc file and change the "Open with"
option from Text Editor (Gedit) to Abiword.
or
Go to Properties of a sample .avi file and change the "Open with" option
from Movie Player (Totem) to VLC.
3. Observe how opening the file in Nautilus results in the .txt file opening
with Abiword and the .avi file opening with VLC, as they should.
4. Observe how opening the file through the Recent Documents list opens the
.txt file with Gedit and the .avi file with Totem.
The odd thing is that if the one chooses to have the .txt file open with
an application that came with Ubuntu, like OpenOffice or Firefox, then
opening the file through Recent Documents does result in the correct
behaviour; the file opens with OpenOffice or Firefox. This may be what
led me to believe that Fedora doesn't have the bug; I only tested it
with pre-installed applications in Fedora.
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"Places" -> "Recent documents" file associations different from Nautilus
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/211743
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