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Went down the rabbit hole for you while drinking some tea listening to the rain - it looks like in the future there is a new app/proposal for FreeDesktop to use
xdg-terminal-execas the new/default way and it's hard coded into the GNOME "gio" code over here (ctrl+f search xdg-terminal-exec): https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/blob/main/gio/gdesktopappinfo.cThat said, it looks like the nautilus-open-terminal Nautilus extension is shipped as part of
gnome-terminalso it's hard coded to run that terminal not using the above code. Instead, you'd need to leverage a different extension callednautilus-open-any-terminalfor now until the landscape changes: https://github.com/Stunkymonkey/nautilus-open-any-terminal(disclaimer: not using GNOME/Nautilus or Fedora, theorycraft from me)
I hope it won't take too long until this is implemented. It's baffling that such a thing is not possible in an easy and accessible way and instead is hardcoded.
This is unfortunately a choice the Nautilus (GNOME) folks have taken; in other file managers (Thunar for XFCE, Caja for MATE, etc.) the ability to use custom actions are a first class citizen. Within Nautilus, the
nautilus-actionsproject was superseded by thefilemanager-actionsproject which was then archived: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/filemanager-actions - a custom GNOME action might be something likegio open /path/to/terminal.desktop %d(where %d is the directory from Nautilus)There are 3rd party attempts to recreate what was stripped out of/abandoned in Nautilus such as this one: https://github.com/bassmanitram/actions-for-nautilus