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Public bug reported:

The an "app" called "Home Folder" appears if one enters "home" into
Unity's search (Home lens and App lenses, and no "home" folder is
suggested) choosing this opens the user's home directory in Nautilus
even if the user has set another file manager as their default file
manager.

This seems to occur because the "Exec" line in: "/usr/share/applications
/nautilus-home.desktop" (a file owned by the Nautilus package) is set to
"nautilus ." rather than "xdg-open .", and because
"/usr/share/applications/nautilus-home.desktop" is the "app" entry with
the name "Home Folder"

I suspect changing the "Exec" line to "Exec=xdg-open ." should give the
expected behavior regardless of the user's choice of default file
manager (I tested and found this to work with my current default:
Marlin)

This seems to be a somewhat known issue as Ubuntu Community Documentation exists that suggests a work around of removing/editing the "nautilus-home.desktop" file from "/usr/share/applications/" when changing default file managers, as per:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DefaultFileManager

Similar changes/issues maybe be in "nautilus-browser.desktop",
"nautilus-computer.desktop" and "nautilus.desktop" (though I haven't
needed to edit these files personally yet)


tested with Ubuntu 11.10 (Arch:AMD64), Nautilus version: 1:3.2.1-0ubuntu3.1 (oneric-updates)

** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  "Home Folder" launcher should launch default file manager

Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The an "app" called "Home Folder" appears if one enters "home" into
  Unity's search (Home lens and App lenses, and no "home" folder is
  suggested) choosing this opens the user's home directory in Nautilus
  even if the user has set another file manager as their default file
  manager.

  This seems to occur because the "Exec" line in:
  "/usr/share/applications/nautilus-home.desktop" (a file owned by the
  Nautilus package) is set to "nautilus ." rather than "xdg-open .", and
  because "/usr/share/applications/nautilus-home.desktop" is the "app"
  entry with the name "Home Folder"

  I suspect changing the "Exec" line to "Exec=xdg-open ." should give
  the expected behavior regardless of the user's choice of default file
  manager (I tested and found this to work with my current default:
  Marlin)

  This seems to be a somewhat known issue as Ubuntu Community Documentation exists that suggests a work around of removing/editing the "nautilus-home.desktop" file from "/usr/share/applications/" when changing default file managers, as per:
  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DefaultFileManager

  Similar changes/issues maybe be in "nautilus-browser.desktop",
  "nautilus-computer.desktop" and "nautilus.desktop" (though I haven't
  needed to edit these files personally yet)

  
  tested with Ubuntu 11.10 (Arch:AMD64), Nautilus version: 1:3.2.1-0ubuntu3.1 (oneric-updates)

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