Created attachment 1979 Choose archive manager dialog screenshot Thunar archive plugin reassociates several file types (*.exe and *.deb) to be opened with an archive manager. This is very irritating, because in most cases those file types are not meant to be opened with archive managers. The bug happens when the archive manager choice dialog as in attached file appears. To reproduce this bug I take the following steps: 0. I use Thunar to open files and associate file extensions. I have both file-roller and xarchiver installed. 1. Make sure *.deb files are opened with Gdebi by default (not with an archive manager). 2. Choose any file in Thunar and select 'Create Archive' from the menu. 3. The aforementioned dialog should appear. Choose any archive manager and click OK. After that you don't need to actually create an archive. 4. Try to open any *.deb file. You will see it is now associated with your previously chosen archive manager, as well as several other file types. My guess is that thunar-archive-plugin has a pre-defined list of file types, which it associates every time the dialog is invoked. This behavior is wrong and should be changed.
Mass reassign. Nick, please check these pending reports. Thx.
Hi Denis, (In reply to Denis Rutkov from comment #0) > > The bug happens when the archive manager choice dialog as in attached file > appears. This was either fixed since then or popping up the choice dialog is not the source of the error. I tried to reproduce this on XFCE 4.12 on Debian 9 and couldn't. However: After installing a third archive manager (Ark) I observed that the .deb association is now handled by Ark. Are you sure the reassociation isn't because of installing a further archive manager that takes over .deb?
I really doubt tap recreates file associations every time it's invoked, probably something else messes up users prefs.