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mouse right click and open with other applications does not work in gnome

Bug #57380 reported by u04f061
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

 hi
   it is my first bug report for dapper.previously i have been using breezy and this error was not present in it.the error is below

  " whenever i right click on an application and select open with other application and select a suitable application to open that file , it gives following error

            Could not add application
        Could not add application to the application database

 this is not for all application but here is list of those who are feeling this problem
    1-xchm
    2-wine(in this case i used select a custome and wrote wine as i used to do in breezy)
    3-real player
4- mplayer
5-gxine
6-gedit & mousepad(for ascii files without .txt extention)"

note that all these application work during command line ,like
  wine /home/computername/filename.exe
 and all work fine in command line.also the work while opening them first and going to file menu and chhsing open file.
 i am using gnome desktop. my pc is dell ,intell p3 ,256Mb
i think this info is enough.
thanks

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Carthik Sharma (carthik) wrote :

Thank you for the bug report.
What version of Nautilus are you using currently? Please paste the command "apt-cache policy nautilus" to provide this info.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Can you use write to his .local/share/applications directory?

Changed in nautilus:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Untriaged → Low
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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u04f061 (u04f061) wrote : RE: [Bug 57380] Re: mouse right click and open with other applicationsdoes not w

everything i am using is default that ships with ubuntu dapper
here is the result

ejaz@msiddique:~$ apt-cache policy nautilus
nautilus:
  Installed: 2.14.1-0ubuntu9
  Candidate: 2.14.1-0ubuntu9
  Version table:
*** 2.14.1-0ubuntu9 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.org.cn dapper/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

>From: Carthik Sharma <email address hidden>
>Reply-To: Bug 57380 <email address hidden>
>To: <email address hidden>
>Subject: [Bug 57380] Re: mouse right click and open with other
>applicationsdoes not work in gnome
>Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 04:39:40 -0000
>
>Thank you for the bug report.
>What version of Nautilus are you using currently? Please paste the command
>"apt-cache policy nautilus" to provide this info.
>
>** Changed in: Ubuntu
>Sourcepackagename: None => nautilus
>
>--
>mouse right click and open with other applications does not work in gnome
>https://launchpad.net/bugs/57380

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u04f061 (u04f061) wrote :

i can't understand what you are talking about
but here is what i got from u

ejaz@msiddique:~$ .local/share/applications directory?
bash: .local/share/applications: Permission denied
ejaz@msiddique:~$ .local/share/applications
bash: .local/share/applications: Permission denied
ejaz@msiddique:~$ sudo .local/share/applications
Password:
sudo: .local/share/applications: command not found
ejaz@msiddique:~$

>From: Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden>
>Reply-To: Bug 57380 <email address hidden>
>To: <email address hidden>
>Subject: [Bug 57380] Re: mouse right click and open with other
>applicationsdoes not work in gnome
>Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:09:24 -0000
>
>Can you use write to his .local/share/applications directory?
>
>** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Untriaged => Low
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>
>--
>mouse right click and open with other applications does not work in gnome
>https://launchpad.net/bugs/57380

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

"cp /usr/share/applications/gedit.desktop .local/share/applications" by example

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Jouni Nieminen (sieni) wrote :

I had the same problem. Solved it by executing "sudo chown -R $USER.$USER .local/" in my home directory. Is this okay?

My .local/ diretory was owned by root.root. In the .local/ there were references to google-earth. Maybe there is a problem with that package?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

there is no "google-earth" Ubuntu package, might be an issue with that software though

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Jouni Nieminen (sieni) wrote :

Yes, this is definitely issue with googleearth software.

Anyways, shouldn't Nautilus check if it can read/write to .local/ and if not, provide meaningful error message?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

not an Ubuntu bug

Changed in nautilus:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote : Re: [Bug 57380] Re: mouse right click and open with other applications does not work in gnome

Le dimanche 24 septembre 2006 à 06:06 +0000, Jouni Nieminen a écrit :
> Yes, this is definitely issue with googleearth software.

marking as rejected then, that's not an Ubuntu package issue

> Anyways, shouldn't Nautilus check if it can read/write to .local/ and if
> not, provide meaningful error message?

it should probably, I'm pretty sure that has already been mentionned on
some other bug, no need of a new bug for that

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