[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#538093: thunar: When installed replaces nautilus as default GNOME file manager

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Yves-Alexis Perez, 23.07.2009 07:11:01 +0200 |=-
> On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:19:37 -0500
> Jaime Alberto Silva <jaimealbertosilva at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Package: thunar
> > Version: 1.0.1-1
> > Severity: critical
> > Justification: breaks unrelated software
> > 
> > 
> > After installing XFCE and therefore Thunar; Thunar is selected as
> > default file
> > manager in GNOME. I don't know if it also affects KDE or other DEs.
> > 
> > Here is what happens when I log in my GNOME session: Nautilus still
> > takes care
> > of the desktop and if I double-click a desktop folder or drive I get a
> > Nautilus
> > window, but if I open an entry in the "Places" menu it is opened with
> > Thunar instead
> > of Nautilus, also when I enter a path in gnome-do or in the "Run
> > Application" dialog
> > it is opened with Thunar instead of Nautilus.
> > 
> > I have not been able to find a way to make GNOME open the paths with
> > nautilus again.
> 
> Please see http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1854 or
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336541
> 
> Basically it could be time to reinvestigate firefox issue, but yes it
> makes sense to install the directory handler from Thunar.
> 
> I don't have time these days to re-ping upstream about that, I'm
> leaving today for 2 weeks, so be patient.

The xfce bug is marked as closed (in 2006), and the gnome bug was 
closed due to the deprecation of gnome-vfs. The bug is still here with 
gnome3, though.

One workaround I've found in fedora mailing list[1] was to change the 
default file manager. It is a bit ugly, since you are required to do 
it from the XFCE settings manager -- gnome3 offers no such 
functionality.

    [1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general/401308

Just run xfce4-settings-manager, go to 'Preferred Applications', on 
the 'Utilities' tab choose 'Other...' in the File manager drop-down 
(for some reason nautilus is not among the offered options), and in 
the "Choose a custom File Manager" dialog enter /usr/bin/nautilus.

A side effect of the setting would be that Nautilus will be the file 
manager even in XFCE.

A proper fix, somewhere, would be nice, though.
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