With seahorse-nautilus in Fedora 20, I can encrypt a file, but there's no obvious way to decrypt it

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Probably this is a bug , and it would be nice if you find the time to report it. I've found another-older bug about this same problem, but has not been resolved due to EOL version of Fedora.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=845855

As a workaround (this is a general script, not for decryption only - you can modify it or change it accordingly , if you want only the decryption feature)

you can use the Open with custom command script. Open a terminal and

gedit .local/share/nautilus/scripts/"Open with custom command"

Add the following content (copy-paste from here)

#!/bin/bash
var=$(zenity --entry \
--title="Add Application" \
--text="Use a custom command" \
--width="320")
if [ $? -eq 0 ] && [ "$var" ]; then
    $var "$1"
else
    exit 0
fi

save the file and then write in terminal

chmod 755 .local/share/nautilus/scripts/"Open with custom command"

Now, on right click, you should see an entry : scripts and there the Open with custom command. Click there and at the opened window write: /usr/bin/gpg . It should work without problems.

I'm on F21. After installing seahorse-nautilus and restarting nautilus, the "Encrypt..." context menu item showed up and worked fine, but there was no "Decrypt" option in the context menu, nor in the File Properties "Open With" applications list.

Eventually I did the following, which seems to have fixed it:

gvfs-mime --set application/pgp-encrypted /usr/share/applications/seahorse-pgp-encrypted.desktop

After nautilus -q and re-starting nautilus, the context menu for an encrypted file offers "Open with Decrypt File" (and it works).

Here's the output of rpm -q for various packages that may be relevant: nautilus-3.14.3-1.fc21.i686 seahorse-nautilus-3.11.92-3.fc21.i686 gvfs-1.22.4-2.fc21.i686