File associations in Budgie

arcooke

I'm not sure which software or component is responsible for this.. so I'm just framing this as a general question, not a support request.

In Budgie, if I right click a file in the file manager and choose "Open With Other Application" and pick one from the list, not only does that open the file in the selected application as it should, but it also permanently changes my default file association for that extension until I manually go and change it back.

This gets a little frustrating, because I use the "Open With" feature as a one-off. For example, I might want to edit a PNG, so I open-with Krita. But 99.9% of the time, I still want PNGs to be associated with the Image Viewer app.

Is there any way to disable the automatic file association change? If not.. can you point me in a direction where I can suggest this?

I think Windows handles this properly.. it gives you a checkbox to remember your choice, which is unchecked by default. So it only remembers it if you explicitly tell it to.

Thanks!

JoshStrobl

Yes this is an issue with Nautilus, a file manager we used developed by GNOME, as opposed to Budgie (a desktop environment we develop). It opts to change the default, by default, instead of having an opt-in modification of the default. This sort of behavior is something I plan on remedying once I implement a new file manager in the future.

There isn't a way of turning it off, a feature request to change the behavior was filed on their issue tracker. Until it is resolved upstream (or I write the new file manager), you will either need to use the "Open with Other Application" option in the right click menu then choosing the Image Viewer to change the default, or modify / remove the entry for the application's mimetype in .config/mimeapps.list

I think Windows handles this properly.. it gives you a checkbox to remember your choice, which is unchecked by default. So it only remembers it if you explicitly tell it to.

Yea this is exactly the sort of behaviour I want and plan on having as well. There are countless times when I'm opening up a JPG, PNG, etc. in GIMP for modification, then forgetting Nautilus changed the default and then suddenly everytime I'm opening up an image it's loading GIMP.

arcooke

Oh ok, good to know I'm not the only one annoyed by this. Thanks for the info!

I didn't suspect Nautilus as the culprit.. since it happens with the "Open with" functionality in the right-click context menu of the image viewer as well. I guess the image viewer hooks into Nautilus in some way?