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[Timothy Arceri <396966@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: gnome-utils (Ubuntu)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

** Changed in: hundredpapercuts
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  'Open Folder' in Search for Files is a misleading option for folders
  and opens the parent directory

Status in gnome-utils - GNOME Desktop Utilities:
  Fix Released
Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
  Fix Released
Status in “gnome-utils” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  After using the standard graphical search tool in Ubuntu (Places >
  Search for files...) to search for files, you are shown a list of
  files and folders that match you description. Right-clicking on a file
  gives the option "Open" and "Open folder", which is very clear. The
  first will open the file, the second the containing folder.

  Right-clicking on a folder will give the same two options, "Open" and
  "Open folder". But in this case these options are confusing, because
  "Open folder" sounds like it will open the folder you are looking at,
  but does not--it opens the containing folder. It has happened to me
  often that I click "Open folder" without thinking, and get to where I
  do not want to be.

  All of the three following schemes seem clearer to me:

  1. For folders, change "Open folder" to "Open containing folder".
  2. For folders, change "Open" to "Open folder" and "Open folder" to "Open containing folder".
  3. For folders, remove the option to open the containing folder altogether. (Unlike opening a file, opening a folder will take you the file manager anyway, where the containing folder is only a single mouseclick away.)

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