RE: proposal for MIME behavior in GNOME

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

Lucian Gabor wrote:
> Ain't nobody interested in maintaining the possibility to 
> hide applications from the context menu

If an application does not register itself as being able to open the file
type, then you won't see it. I can't imagine why a user would need to keep
an application off the context menu. But he could still do it by changing
the associations as Jonathan's document suggests.
 
> or in maintaining the 
> possibility to use a different default application to open a 
> specific file?

Again, see "Change Default Application for a MIME-type" in Jonathan's
document.

> Also what about the possibility to easily 
> change the default viewer for all image files or for all video files?

I guess that would mean setting the default application for a group of MIME
types all at once, where the application says that it can open that MIME
type. I guess that might be useful. It would not need to be in the same UI.

Murray Cumming
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