User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20061201 Epiphany/2.18 Firefox/2.0.0.6 (Ubuntu-feisty) Build Identifier: This was reported on Launchpad : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunar/+bug/128844 by : https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ovariohisterectomia This happens when opening a cab archive with thunar under gnome 2.18. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download a cab file ( it happens with cab files downloaded here : http://www.handster.com/index_ppc.php ) 2. right click on it, select "open with" and choose Thunar file manager, click on ok. Actual Results: Thunar windows will start to pop up on the gnome-panel window list until you delete the cab archive, when done so the windows will automatically disappear from the windows list in a short time. Expected Results: If it can open the cab file, a popup window should say so.
Expected Results should be : If it CAN'T open the cab file, a popup window should say so.
Sure, it'll recurse there: If you run "Thunar /path/to/file" and the item is a regular file, Thunar will lookup the responsible application and run it, so yeah it will recurse! The real question is: Why does Thunar appear as responsible application for .cab files? That looks like a bug in the Thunar.desktop file shipped with Ubuntu or the shared-mime-info package (.cab files being detected as directories).
Ok thank you, I'll invetigate this.