Opening Gnome Shell document search results in Libreoffice

[rsking84]

Hi everyone,
Gnome 3.4 brought us the ability to see recent documents in the desktop search via gnome shell, but at some point in the last few months, Gnome Documents has become the default program for opening libreoffice documents and .pdfs from the shell as well. It wasn't alwayst this way.

For example, if I type a search into gnome shell, highlight a LibO Writer document, and press "enter" it opens in Gnome Documents, not Writer. This is annoying because I usually want to EDIT these files, not just view them.

My file associations are set properly: Writer is the default program for opening LibO documents.

How can I prevent Gnome Documents from opening these documents from the search results?

Thanks for your help!

[ntdoherty]

Hey there,

Thanks for posting this. I also hate this feature. I'm running Fedora 17 on a Toshiba NB505 netbook (slow) and the GNOME Documents thing just GRINDS. It's much faster to open documents through the file browser with LibreOffice...so this feature that I'm sure is intended to expedite file work is in effect making it much more inconvenient and irritationg.

It seems that when one is opening files, one very often wants to manipulate them, so why introduce this middleman-program into the workflow?

I would VERY MUCH like to see a work-around for this to avoide GNOME Documents - I might even try uninstalling it...

Thanks!
No offense to the people that developed it...just not working for me!

[Gareth Jones]

I've had a look through dconf-editor, but I can't see anything that looks likely to change this behaviour unfortunately.

[ntdoherty]

Thanks anyway! I'm going to keep monitoring to see if anyone comes up with anything.
But! Any thoughts on just uninstalling GNOME Documents? I don't have any use for it, but would that cause the shell to revert to opening the files in their specified default program?

[nonamedotc]

Originally Posted by ntdoherty

Thanks anyway! I'm going to keep monitoring to see if anyone comes up with anything.
But! Any thoughts on just uninstalling GNOME Documents? I don't have any use for it, but would that cause the shell to revert to opening the files in their specified default program?

If I recall correctly, if you remove gnome-documents, searches will no longer show the individual files. It will only show the applications. At least, that's what I remember being the case ...

But then, if it is not opening the files in the correct program, I suppose it does not really matter whether it is there or not, I guess

[cazo]

Nevermind - I mis-read the question. I have gnome-documents installed, but don't get any of my recent documents to show up in gnome-shell's search (for about a minute or two). It must be my music collection

However, once the document is viewed in gnome-documents, you can right-click on it to open it (with LibreOffice Writer, for example).


You have to right-click on the document (or click the checkbox in the upper right), then you'll see a check-box appear on all the documents (with the one you right-clicked on marked) along with a small 'task bar' appear at the bottom. The choice are:

Heart - Add to favorites
Printer - Print (I assume, but no tooltip shows)
Plus - Organize
Folder - Open with LibreOffice Writer (in the case of LibreOffice Writer docs)

Also, it's not obvious (to me, at least) that you can press "space bar" to refine what shows up by "Sources" (All, Local, Google), "Type" (All, Collections, PDF Documents, Presentations, Spreadsheets, Text Documents), and/or "Match" (All, Title, Author). That's done by clicking the "down arrow" next to the "search bar" at the top.