Open a path with Desktop.open() from java on ubuntu (linux)

Question

From my application written in java I want to open a folder, using the operating system file explorer.

I use Desktop.open(new File(path))

This works fine on wind

Answer 1

I was running into what sounds like the same issue on Mint 13. From what I can tell, changes to mime handling for opening directories has broken the java Desktop api. I was able to work around the problem by editing

~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list

and adding this line

x-directory/normal=nautilus.desktop

I'm running Mint 13 Cinnamon with java version "1.7.0_05"