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charlie

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Registered: 2013-09-18

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GDM no more "open with" menu after last Gnome upgrade (3.16.0)

Hi,

Using nautilus, I used to have an "open with" menu showing a list of alternative applications to open a file, such as in this picture:
https://ubuntugenius.files.wordpress.co … .png?w=500
This was quite handy as I could use different applications to open the same type of file without changing the default association each time I use an alternative application.

Since I have updated my system, Gnome has been upgraded and now there is only an "open with another application" entry in the "right click menu", which, if I use it, change the default application for the type of the selected file.

The list of alternative applications is still the same as before, but the behaviour is now different, since these application do not appear directly in the menu any more, and since selecting any of them will change the default file-application association. For me, this is a bit annoying since I wants to use two different applications to open the same type of file.

I could not find anything on the internet related to this vanishing of the "open with" menu.

I am curious to know if anybody has the same problem as me. I wonder if it is a feature or if there is a problem somewhere?

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Last edited by charlie (2015-04-14 14:49:02)

jasonwryan

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Re: GDM no more "open with" menu after last Gnome upgrade (3.16.0)

Not a Pacman Issue, moving to NC...

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charlie

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Registered: 2013-09-18

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Re: GDM no more "open with" menu after last Gnome upgrade (3.16.0)

Thanks for the edit and the move.

Last edited by charlie (2015-04-14 17:37:49)

staffe85

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Re: GDM no more "open with" menu after last Gnome upgrade (3.16.0)

That behavior of nautilus seems to be a new "feature". I really have no idea why they change such things.
At least, there's allready a bugreport for this:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747706