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FS#11956 - [gnome-desktop] 2.24 - Cannot save user defined command while opening a file
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Opened by Markus (xor_eax_eax) - Friday, 31 October 2008, 19:03 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 18 July 2009, 22:29 GMT
Opened by Markus (xor_eax_eax) - Friday, 31 October 2008, 19:03 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 18 July 2009, 22:29 GMT
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DetailsWhen I want to open a file with a program not listet in the menu, I usually do a right click on the file once -> open with different program- > user defined command and save this command by a checkbox but since Gnome 2.24 there is not checkbox anymore to save this special command which is pretty annoying.
Now you have to type in the command every time from new, e.g. "wine /opt/program/programm.exe". I already begin to hate that because I need an old Windows program very often with wine and every time I click a file which belongs to this program, I have to type in the whole command from new. My "System->Info about Gnome" button doesn't work at all too, so I have to get the right version from pacman. It's: local/gnome-desktop 2.24.0-2 (gnome) The GNOME Desktop |
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Closed by Jan de Groot (JGC)
Saturday, 18 July 2009, 22:29 GMT
Reason for closing: Not a bug
Additional comments about closing: gnomevfs and gio don't associate by extension, but by mime type. Just as you can't associate files without extensions in windows, you can't associate unknown mime types to applications.
Saturday, 18 July 2009, 22:29 GMT
Reason for closing: Not a bug
Additional comments about closing: gnomevfs and gio don't associate by extension, but by mime type. Just as you can't associate files without extensions in windows, you can't associate unknown mime types to applications.
When I assign "wine /opt/path/to/program" to this file and when I want to open this file by double click then, nothing happens. Not even the pressor load rises, so my guess it, that Gnome still doesn't know what it has to do with this file.
When I look back into the menu, wine seems to be assigned for these files but obviously Gnome even doesn't know it.
When I use wine with a parameter as path, I have the following problem:
I right click the program file of this program I use with wine -> Properties -> Open with -> ADD (I fill out "wine /opt/program/program.exe")
When I leave the menu and go back to nautilus and want to double click this file again, nothing happens.
I choose open with and already find a "wine"-entry a lot of times due to my last tries to get this to work although I deleted all the wine entries from the properties menu.
I choose any of these wine entries and the program starts.
When I try a double click on the file next time, it doesn't work again. Nothing happens. That means that Gnome knows, what this wine entry means,
because I'm able to choose it from the given menu from "open with", but I cannot open it with a double click.
Again, it only doesn't work exactly in this case with wine. With other files it doesn't seem to be a problem, because after the update to Gnome 2.24,
Nautilus wanted to open PDFs with Gimp?! I don't know how this weird behaviour appeared, but switching to acroread worked perfectly and from this time on, I was able to open PDFs with a double click.
It even works when I click text files and want to open it with notepad.exe. They open with notepad without problems.
But when I click ERwin files and want to open it with "wine /opt/Erwin/erwinerx.exe", they don't open. But it worked perfectly before I updated Gnome so something must be wrong here.
I surely didn't change anything in the program. So what could be the problem? I already delete all the properties entries and typed in wine /opt/Erwin/erwinerx.exe from new, but always the same problem.
wine /opt/Erwin/erwinerx.exe "/path/to/ERwinfile"
Does it start then, or does it give errors?
When I use the file command on the erwin file, I get the following:
$ file FILE.ER1
FILE.ER1: data
In Gnome, in the column type, it shows that the file type is unknown.
Btw: The System->Info about GNOME dialog still doesn't work yet.
As for your erwin files, I think nautilus tries to associate by MIME type, not by extension. the Erwin files don't have a known mimetype, I think nautilus has problems binding applications to it.
Should I write another bug report for nautilus?