Ubuntu
nautilus package

Wrong recognition of .theme file

Bug #38434 reported by Claudio Di Vita on 2006-04-06

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Nautilus	Fix Released	Medium	gnome-bugs #319981
	nautilus (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

If explore my filesystem with Nautilus, when I select a file with .theme extension it's type change from "Theme File" to "Desktop Configuration File".

Thus when I try to open this file I get an error message that says: "Cannot show...... The position is not a folder"

Sorry but maybe the error message it's quite different in English, I use the IT locale

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/quantal/nautilus

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Carthik Sharma (carthik) wrote on 2006-04-07:

Can you please attach the theme file? What sort of theme file is that? Should you be able to open in the normal case?

Thanks for reporting this.

Changed in nautilus:
status:	Unconfirmed → Needs Info

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2006-04-07:

Carthik, you can try with any theme, they ship an index.theme

Claudio what would you expect happening when clicking on them? Getting the theme applied?

Changed in nautilus:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
status:	Needs Info → Confirmed

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Claudio Di Vita (cdivita) wrote on 2006-04-07:

Because it's a text file, I expect to show it in GEdit.

I think that Nautilus recognize it like a folder: in the context menu I don't have "Open with other application".

Now, after the last upgrade Nautilus don't show anymore the file name (index.theme), but the Theme name

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Carthik Sharma (carthik) wrote on 2006-04-08:

I can confirm this.

To reproduce, I tried with the Ubuntu Smooth Orange theme's index.theme file (http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=37533 ). Nautilus displays that icon as "Human" and cannot open the theme file.

I have attached a screenshot of the same.

When I right click on the file, there is no "Open with.." item in the context menu, so indeed, there appears to be no way to open that file in a text editor using Nautilus.

To reproduce, you don't need theme. Any text file named foobar.theme will display the same behaviour.

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Carthik Sharma (carthik) wrote on 2006-04-08: Screenshot showing the .theme file problem.

Screenshot showing the .theme file problem. Edit (131.3 KiB, image/png)

This screenshots shows being unable to open an index.theme file in Dapper on Apr 7, 2006.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2006-04-20:

That's known upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319981. The bug was closed I reopened it mentioning that page

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-02-27

Changed in nautilus:
status:	New → Confirmed

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2008-06-25

Changed in nautilus:
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2010-09-15

Changed in nautilus:
importance:	Unknown → Medium

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Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac) wrote on 2012-03-07:

Message is not displayed in Nautilus 3.0, but 'Open With..' dialog is not available, so the file cannot be opened using editor (e.g. gedit)

Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac) on 2012-03-08

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2012-03-12

Changed in nautilus:
status:	Confirmed → Fix Released

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-03-20:

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:3.3.92-0ubuntu1

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nautilus (1:3.3.92-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - Fix scrolling in compact view to work with latest GTK
    - Fix Ctrl+Scroll zooming to work with latest GTK
    - Don't hide Open With applications for subtypes
      of application/x-desktop (lp: #38434)
    - Add support for the "network" GVolume class identifier
    - Fix a crash at exit with certain extensions that keep refs of
      the NautilusFileInfos (lp: #449796)
    - Fix initial focus row when moving the focus into the Places
      sidebar (lp: #940951)
    - Fix Shift+Click selection when going back/forward in browsing
      history (lp: #953245)
    - Fix packing of desktop file box in properties view
    - Fix pathbar button sizing when a file watched by the pathbar
      changes name (lp: #952648)
    - Fix properties window not being able to shrink size (lp: #948524)
    - Remove unused --enable-profiler configure option
    - Let drag the dialog by the toolbar (lp: #953004)
  * debian/patches/git_handle_ctrl_scroll.patch:
    - dropped, the fix is in the new version
  * debian/patches/12_unity_launcher_support.patch:
    - use correct capitalization, list the source in potfiles so it's
      translatable (lp: #958517)
  * drop appindicator patch, the option was turned off and it creates work
-- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:19:52 +0100