Bug#292960: nautilus: Opening HTML file from WebDAV share with "Text Editor" launches Epiphany

Roland Turner Roland Turner <raz.qrovna.bet@raz.cx>, 292960@bugs.debian.org
Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:15:22 +0000


Package: nautilus
Version: 2.8.2-2
Severity: normal

I'm not even sure where to report this, but in the limited sense that
nautilus is opening an "unreasonable" application, it seems an
appropriate place to file the report, at least initially.

The Subject: line is pretty self explanatory, all I'd add is that
copying the file from the WebDAV share to a local file system and
again right clicking and selecting 'Open with "Text Editor"'
causes my text editor (gedit) to open instead, which was the
expected behaviour in the first place. Using 'Open with Other
Application' and typing 'gedit' does actually get gedit to open
the file from the WebDAV share. (I am aware that gedit is only
capable of reading from WebDAV shares and will thus open files
read-only, which is a little pointless, but it's a lot clearer
in that case that there is a "can't write here" problem rather
than "I'm randomly opening some unexpected application".)

I assume that this is a configuration problem of some
description, but as I never set up any of this configuration it
seems reasonable to assume that an installer somewhere (perhaps
not Nautilus') is at fault.

- Raz

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  capplets                 1:2.8.1-3       configuration applets for GNOME 2 
ii  desktop-file-utils       0.9-1           Utilities for .desktop files
ii  libart-2.0-2             2.3.16-6        Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0              1.8.0-4         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0            0.2.6-5         Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0             2.8.0-4         Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0           2.8.0-2         The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-20    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libeel2-2                2.8.2-1         Eazel Extensions Library (for GNOM
ii  libesd0                  0.2.35-2        Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libexif10                0.6.9-4         The EXIF library allows you to par
ii  libgail-common           1.8.2-1         GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgail17                1.8.2-1         GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4              2.8.1-4         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0              1:2.4.1-1       Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.6.1-2         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2       2.8.1-2         Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0              2.8.0-6         The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0        2.8.0-1         A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0             2.8.0-3         The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0           2.8.3-9         The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.4.14-2        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnautilus2-2           2.8.2-2         libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liborbit2                1:2.10.2-1.1    libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.6.0-3         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                 1.7-5           lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2               2.8.1-2         SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libsm6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstartup-notification0 0.7-1           library for program launch feedbac
ii  libx11-6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2                  2.6.11-5        GNOME XML library
ii  nautilus-data            2.8.2-2         data files for nautilus
ii  shared-mime-info         0.15-1          FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa
ii  xlibs                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.2-3       compression library - runtime

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