Fix: Dolphin hijacks the GNOME Places menu

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I had a problem where items in the GNOME Places menu were opening in Dolphin (and weren't working). Somehow Dolphin hijacked the file:// protocol. The fix is simple though is something I just found by looking around in GConf Editor.

Why would I have Dolphin installed in GNOME you ask? Amarok 2.0 needs it. By the way, it's nice.

Do this as your normal user (not root):

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gconftool-2 --set --type=string /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/file/command 'nautilus "%s"'
gconftool-2 --set --type=bool /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/file/enabled true
gconftool-2 --set --type=bool /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/file/need-terminal false

Hopefully other users find this through Google, because having the GNOME Panel's Places menu launch Dolphin instead of Nautilus sucks, and this fixes it! ☺ (that's a paragraph of keywords, folks)

(If you use a different file manager, replace the command as needed)