"the current maintainers are quite open to comments" Doesn't seem like it.
Check out: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747706 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777132 In the former several people expressed their frustration about this change, no comment was arguing for the change, they were told to open a separate issue. They did (see the second link) and there the maintainer doesn't seem to be reasonable about this at all. He is very polite though, but pretty certain about the new behaviour being the best one for most of the users. The maintainer referred to this usability test: https://renatagegaj.wordpress.com/2016/08/23/gnome-usability-test-results-part-1/ https://renatagegaj.wordpress.com/2016/08/26/gnome-usability-test-results-part-2/ It has nothing to do with Nautilus and it's based on a feedback from 10 users!!! Wow. How many users does Gnome have from how many countries/cultures, professions, age groups, etc.? And this is not the first time that I see some unexplainable change occur in a major component (i.e. something that I use on a daily basis) of Ubuntu with a similiar reaction from the maintainer(s). And it'll not get fixed/reverted before one or two Gnome/Ubuntu releases, I'm pretty sure of it. I only hope somebody comes up with a PPA where a patched version of Nautilus will become available with the old behaviour of the "Open with" right-click menu item. ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #777132 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777132 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1647217 Title: Nautilus “Open with …” context menu gone on upgrade to yakkety To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1647217/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
