Bug 682901

Summary:	RFE: Ability to Right-Click on Files and Choose "Open With" and Other Context Menu Options
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	David Le Sage <dlesage>
Component:	gnome-shell	Assignee:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	maxamillion, otaylor, samkraju, steevithak, walters
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Description David Le Sage 2011-03-07 22:30:09 UTC

Description of problem:
If I search for a file in the Activities Overlay, I cannot bring up a right-click menu.  This would be handy if I wanted to open it with a specific application. In fact, many of the context menu functions found if you were to click on the same file in Nautilus should probably be available in the Overlay.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-shell-2.91.90-2.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go into the Activities Overlay.
2. In the search field, type the name of, say, a text file that you know exists somewhere in your home directory.
3. The file appears under the "Recent Items" heading.
4. Right-click on the file, as you want to open it in a specific text editor.
  
Actual results:
No right-click context menu functionality available.  Hence, there is no way to choose to open the file you have just found using a specific application

Expected results:
A context menu with applicable items should appear.  You should be able to choose to open the file in the application of your choice.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Steevithak 2012-03-03 16:59:55 UTC

I'm running into this problem a lot too. A lot of the meta-functionality that's available in GNOME 2 (and most other OS') on contextual right-click menus is either missing or confusingly hidden on GNOME 3. Is there no simply way to turn back on the right-click context menus? I guess there may be people who don't use this functionality and they could have an option to run it off but my guess is most people actually need and use many of those features.

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