@Phillip Susi excuse me, have you by any chance been many-years employee at Microsoft ?
This answer is so snotty and shitty, that I have to assume. Nahh, maybe IBM-employee ? OF COURSE its not a fix : Taking away user rights to manipulate his own machine/OS/interface is NOT, I repeat NOT, a "solution"; only a cop-out for a very, seriously lazy developer. regards gerti ---- > On 5/11/2011 9:11 AM, gerti wrote: >> BTW : in my newly installed 11.4 there is no possibility to >> check/uncheck for "Remember this...". >> So, in my opinion, this is still an open bug. > > That IS the fix. You can no longer accidentally screw it up by checking > the remember this box. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of a duplicate bug (772460). > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/667071 > > Title: > Folders opened by wrong application > > Status in Nautilus: > Expired > Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: > Triaged > > Bug description: > Right clicking on a folder and choosing open with, then selecting > another application has the "remember this application" box checked by > default. If you proceed, that application will be remembered and used > to open folders in the future, which can cause confusion. > > Changing the default handler for folders either should not be allowed > at all, or at the very least, the option should not be enabled by > default. > > To fix it, do the following: > > * Open the Computer from the Places menu > * open a partition, which does have some folders in it > * right click on any folder > * select Open with Other application from the context menu > * select the File browser as the app to open with > * make sure the "remember this application for 'folder' files" is checked > * click OK > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/667071/+subscribe > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/667071 Title: Folders opened by wrong application -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
