Is it possible to run application by clicking on its desktop-file from /usr/share/applications opened in Nautilus?

Question

Just installed Nautilus on the Ubuntu MATE 19.10.
Navigated to /usr/share/applications to launch some application by clicking on its icon.
When I click on the icon of the desktop-file for application this file is opened in text editor. Moreover the icons are not shown:

How one can open application by clicking on its desktop-file in modern Nautilus?
I remember it was working as expected in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Not any more in 19.10. That's not the right place to start apps anyway, never was :-) — heynnema, Apr 18 '20 at 21:30

N0rbert · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-27T20:38:37.900

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It is not possible in modern versions of Nautilus. It is a bug 1819375 caused by upstream Nautilus simplification.

You have to use other fully-functional modern file-managers like Caja, Dolphin, Konqueror, Nemo, PCManFM or Thunar.

edited Jun 27 '20 at 20:38

answered Apr 26 '20 at 12:25

N0rbert

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Is it possible to run application by clicking on its desktop-file from /usr/share/applications opened in Nautilus?

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