Ubuntu
nautilus package

Clicking on text files brings up weird prompt about executable text files

Bug #10646 reported by Tim Hull
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Sebastien Bacher

Bug Description

Whenever I click on text files (especially ones created on Windows), I get a
prompt stating that the text file
is executable - and asking the user what to do with it. When I choose to view
the text file, OpenOffice appears and asks
me something weird ( I don't remember off-hand) and then displays the file.

1) There should be no prompts concerning "executable text file" unless the file
is a bona fide shell
script.
2) gedit, instead of OpenOffice, should be used for plain text files.

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Tim Hull (thully-arbornet) wrote :

marking as major as this will really confuse new users - and they won't know
where to change this behavior.

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Tim Hull (thully-arbornet) wrote :

This bug is partially fixed - OpenOffice no longer is associated with plain text
files (gedit is, as it should be),
but opening files from CD-ROMs still brings up the executable text file prompt.

Downgrading bug to normal

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

what's the mimetype according to the nautilus properties ? which mode is used
for the file ?

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Tim Hull (thully-arbornet) wrote :

The type is text/plain, however the file is executable in permissions (which
seems to be common for CDs burned on non-Linux systems).

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

ok, we already add some bugs about this (ie: #1053), not sure on how that should
be handled. BTW upstreams
know about this and there is some upstream bugs open.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

duplicate of bug #14335

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 14335.

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