Re: proposal for MIME behavior in GNOME

[Julio Biason <julio biason terra com br>]

Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> Also, I have a screen shot for you of the Association properties page of
> OS/2's Workplace Shell:
>
> http://cynosurex.granax.com/documents/Editor/docs/OS2_Association.gif

Ah, the memories... :)

OS/2 showed a very powerful way to make associations, but, at the same 
time, a not very user-friendly was to do it (the hell comes to you if 
you remove every association of a text file and make it AIFF only).

But there was something really nice regarding the way OS/2 handled the 
menu: you have a "Open | > " menu item, that opened the file with the 
default application to that type. If you move the mouse over the "| >" 
area, a new menu appears, with all possible options (Like "Edit", 
"Print", etc).

Of course, GNOME doesn't have a menu that could "| >", and I bet that is 
not very user-friendly (no one expects that a new menu will open only if 
you move your mouse over the "| >" area).

Just my R$ 0.02...

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