Hi, For me this is a bug, the fix should be applied to the original package, so 13.04 and future ubuntu installations will not suffer from this.
There is no sense with behavior 'View executable text files' selected by default for a regular user. Shellscripts are commonly used to launch other executables, so a regular user will expect that double clicking on a given application executable (being script or ELF) will launch an application instead of gedit showing 'strange programming mambojambo'. I will give you an example: here in Portugal, we pay our taxes using an official application that is downloaded from a goverment site. The application is developed in java and it worked flawlessly with ubuntu. The application is packaged inside a special script file that will auto-extract the application content to a selected installation dir (by the way the application launcher is also a shellscript). So a regular user when double clicking this script, a gigant script will be opened in gedit! This really doesn't make any sense from a regular user prespective. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1111397 Title: Executable files do not launch in 13.04 Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: If I make a text file executable - I can launch it in 12.10, or 12.04 . But in 13.04 it is just opening in gedit . I need to use terminal to launch it. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: nautilus 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu5 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-2.6-generic 3.8.0-rc4 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-2-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.8-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Jan 31 14:05:23 2013 GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'800x550+261+167'" b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'maximized' b'true' InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-28 (2 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=ru_UA:ru PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=ru_UA.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-01-28 (2 days ago) mtime.conffile..etc.xdg.autostart.nautilus.autostart.desktop: 2013-01-28T16:57:30.718877 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1111397/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
