[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#696569: xfce4-places-plugin does not use the preferred file manager but uses thunar which is hard coded.

[Jonathan]

Package: xfce4-places-plugin
Version: 1.3.0-1+b1
Severity: important
Tags: patch

xfce4-places-plugin does not use the preferred file manager but uses thunar which is hard coded.

How to reproduce the bug:
Install xfce4-places-plugin and add the plug-in to the xfce panel.
Run exo-preferred-applications and set the file manager to Nautilus.
Run "exo-open --launch FileManager" and check that it opens Nautilus.
Now click on the xfce-places-plugin on your panel and click the item called "Desktop".
It should start Nautilus but it starts Thunar.

This bug is fixed by upstream in the 1.4 release.
See bug: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8085

I have applied the upstream patch [1] to xfce4-places-plugin-1.3.0-1+b1 from debian testing and it fixes the bug.

[1] http://git.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-places-plugin/patch/?id=69080e9afba518b8e51d11dbd14c93ab673a6e0a

I'm using Wheezy with the 3.2.0-4-686-pae kernel.