Ubuntu
gnome-panel package

Can't open location in "Places"

Bug #280729 reported by Olaf Leidinger
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

Clicking e.g. "Places/Home Folder" in gnome-panel doesn't open $HOME in nautilus, but creates a dialog telling me:

Could not open location 'file:///home/oleid'

No application is registered as handling this file

Creating a new user with an empty home directory it works fine. Removing $HOME/.gnome* doesn't fix the problem.

Note: I use this home direcory a long time now with different distributions and using it in arch linux works fine, right now.

What could I do to diagnose the problem further? In what config file (in my home directory) is stored, what app is called to handle file:///somedir?

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Tuomas Aavikko (taavikko) wrote :

This particular problem is been reported earlier, and marking this as dublicate of #260492

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Olaf Leidinger (leidola) wrote :

Well, in those cases file:// was handled by another application, im my case it is no app.

The links from places in natulus sidebar work fine in nautilus and in the gtk filechooser.

As described, I could make it work again by right-clicking any folder in nautilus and use "open with other app" and select nautilus.

Shouldn't be nautilus the fall-back application in gnome-panel if no app is registered?

Btw.: #260492 is hard to find when looking for a problem with gnome-panel.

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Tuomas Aavikko (taavikko) wrote :

>Btw.: #260492 is hard to find when looking for a problem with gnome-panel.<

Under the title of the bug, is link to bug #260492

Entries in gnome-panel are links to commands that start the appropriate program.
So the problem isn't gnome-panel.

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Olaf Leidinger (leidola) wrote :

> Under the title of the bug, is link to bug #260492

Now, as this bug exists. But I searched for dupes before creating this bug and I couldn't find one, as I had the impression there was a bug in gnome-panel and searched for it's error message.

When searching for the error message again this bug isn't found, as it is reported as a duplicate (which is okay), but people experiencing this bug will create another report, as bug #260492 is hard to find when looking for a problem with gnome-panel (even if gnome-panel isn't the problem).

This is all I wanted to say *g*

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jken (jkencandy) wrote :

sudo apt-get install nautilus

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