Comment 17 for bug 260492

similar problem: (as reported in bug #280729).

But in my case no application is linked with a folder, which is correct according to [1], but clicking the "Places/Home Folder" or another directory in gnome-panel doesn't open it.

I don't know what gnome-panel does to execute the launcher, but the default should be to open a folder in nautilus, if nothing else is set -- I guess.

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=553237