[Bug 86233] Re: nautilus uses filenames over network (for speed reason)

markba mark.baaijens at gmail.com
Sat Feb 24 20:57:31 UTC 2007


Currently, my real problem seams to be this: I cannot open a (bash) file
with gedit through Nautilus.

First try: double click. Because Nautilus has no knowledge about the
file type, this is the error message I get: "Cannot open
ssh://root@192.168.0.201/usr/local/sbin/3a-transcode: No application
suitable for automatic installation is available for handling this kind
of file.". This can be considered as normal because of the unknown file
type.

Second try. Make a file association to this file: Right click,
Properties, Open with, Add, Select 'Text editor'. This does not work
because the selected program cannot be added, probably because the file
type is unknown. Error message: "Could not add application to the
application database". This can be considered as normal because of the
unknown file type.

Third try. Right click, Open with another application, select 'Text
Editor'. I get the same message as when I'm trying to change the file
association (see second try): "Could not add application to the
application database". This cannot be considered as normal because I
want to open the file only *this* time with the selected application.

Fourth try. Open gedit, browse to the ssh'ed file and open it. This
works.

My guess that this is my problem: just because Nautilus cannot add the
application due to the unknown filetype, blocks me from opening a file
with a application of my choice. Ofcourse, if SSH gives the correct file
types back, this problem is not likely to exist.

Note. This optimization which you mention is for SSH connections only?
When connecting through Samba (static mount of gnome-vfs), file types
are (normally) read.

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nautilus uses filenames over network (for speed reason)
https://launchpad.net/bugs/86233




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