nautilus only able to open directories in text-based location bar

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Open the nautilus filebrowser, press CTRL+L to get the text-based location bar. Type the path of some file, then press ENTER. Nautilus will present you with a error dialog, complaining that you typed the path of a file instead of a folder.

I'm saying, it would be nice if nautilus was able to open files this way, rather than just open directories. So instead of displaying an error, nautilus could simply open the file with the preferred program, same as if I had dubble-clicked an icon.

I can confirm this behaviour, I believe this to be incorrect since the the location bar in nautilus should behave exactly as the location bar in gtk_open for consistency.

On a side note, it might be a good idea to extract the logic used in gtk_open for their location bar, and create some sort of location_bar widget that could then be used in nautilus and similar apps, this would
avoid duplicate work and would solve the problem of incosistencies between nautilus and gtk (at least as far as the location bar goes).

Regards,
Alex

Is this still an issue with latest Nautilus package available on Hardy?

It is, I'm not sure if this can be done easily, i'll take a look upstream to see what there's related to it, thanks.

Known upstream you can track it here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337504

the issue is fixed in the current version