Sorry for the "me, too" comment but I just want to press how much of an oversight this is for a very common use case. I was close to giving up before I finally found a page detailing the "set as default" button's hiding place.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1413283 Title: "Set as default" is absent from "Open with.." context menu Status in One Hundred Papercuts: New Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Question http://askubuntu.com/questions/90214/how-to-set-default- program gets 35k+ views. I suspect much of it is because there is no intuitive way to set a file association. See the comment under accepted answer: Right-click -> open with -> other application DOES NOT show "Set as default"... Right-click -> Properties -> Open With DOES show "Set as default" I was looking for "Set as default" in "Open with.." menu myself . To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/1413283/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
