279106 - Should not open folders with default application (GNOME 2.8)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Sven Arvidsson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050110 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0+dfsg.1-2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050110 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0+dfsg.1-2)

Firefox should not use the default application to open folders, the "Open with"
feature for folders is actually no longer available in GNOME 2.8* and even if it
was, I guess users expect the file manager to start when they select "Show folder".

* http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151747


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Right click a directory in Nautilus and select an application in the "Open
with " tab, for example XMMS.
2. Try to click on "Show folder" in the Download preferences, XMMS starts. 
3. Try to click on the selected folder "All files downloaded to:" in the Firefox
download manager, XMMS starts.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

We're not going to try to work around a debatable bug in GNOME 2.8.  If you set
folders to open by default in a non-Nautilus app, then why should we ignore that
setting?

If GNOME doesn't want changing of associations for folders, they should disable
it completely (see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152407).

Whatever they choose, its up to the OS to decide how to handle objects, we're
not going to reinvent the wheel here.