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when decibels installed as flatpak, GNOME Places extension tries to open folders with decibels instead of nautilus #58

Closed sebo505 closed 10 months ago

sebo505 commented 10 months ago

After I have installed decibels as flatpak via flathub, I can no more access folders like Music, Videos, Home etc via GNOME Places extension, since it now tries to open the folders with decibels instead of nautilus.

vixalien commented 10 months ago

You are probably using Arch Linux. Please see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/File_manager_functionality#Directories_are_not_opened_in_the_file_manager

sebo505 commented 10 months ago

Hi, I am actually on Solus with GNOME 45.3. Following the Arch wiki, I was able to resolve the issue with xdg-mime default org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop inode/directory Though I would still consider it a bug that decibels obviously sets itself as default "file browser" on install. I have also observed that this does not happen on Fedora. You have any insights why this happens on Solus, but not on Fedora and are you planing to take action to prevent decibels settings itself as default file browser? Thank you.

vixalien commented 10 months ago

This happens for apps like Amberol, G4Music and even VS Code, basically any app that can open directories (or in this case, files).

I believe this is caused by the Nautilus package not being set as a program that can open directories. Now, Fedora and Ubuntu will usually patch these "bugs" out, while DIY or upstream-preferring distros will leave the things as-is. This is probably a Nautilus issue, but good luck convincing the developers.

sebo505 commented 10 months ago

Hey, thank you for your response, this has been helpful to me. I also found a pretty good explanation for this matter by the GNOME devs on GNOME discourse.