On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 16:30:56 +0100, Christian Persch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > in investigating an Epiphany bug > (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169039 "view source appears > broken") I've found some serious problems with "Open with other > application": > > Right-click a file, select "Open with other application", expand "use a > custom command", enter "gedit --new-window", click Open. This opens the > selected file in gedit, but it also creates a "gedit.desktop" file in > ~/.local/share/applications/ . > Now, if gedit was the default handler for some mime type (for example > text/plain), using gnomve_vfs_mime_get_default_application("text/plain") > then gnome_vfs_mime_application_launch will try to launch the handler > using the new .desktop file. This will fail, because its Exec line > doesn't include any argument placeholder (%U). > > I think there are really 3 bugs here: > > 1) Nautilus creates a .desktop file with a name which will clash with a > system-installed .desktop file > 2) The newly created .desktop file has an Exec line which makes it > unsuitable for launch with either gnome_vfs_mime_application_launch or > gnome_desktop_item_launch. > [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169202] > 3) GNOME-VFS uses the wrong .desktop file > [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169198] > > Together, these bugs make Epiphany's "View Source" command fail.
Granted I'm biased (I filed the original bug ;) but I'm very tempted to mark this collection of bugs a showstopper for 2.10- it must affect other programs (that we haven't seen yet) and is totally unfixable by the average user. Luis -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
