Re: MIME interface suggestions

["Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro" <gjc inescporto pt>]

A Qua, 2004-09-01 às 15:39, Jerry Haltom escreveu:
> I believe the thought process goes like this:
> 
> If the application the user wants to use is not listed in the menu, then
> that application does not have a .desktop file, or it is misconfigured.
> In which cases, it wouldn't appear in your application list dialog either.
> 
> 
> I do however see a point. We have examples like ghex, which should
> probably not be configured to open application/octect-stream, even though
> technically they can. It would just be menu cruft. But the user might want
> to open a specific file with them... so it would be good if it was in the
> list.
> 
> 
> Actually the more I think about this, I think ghex SHOULD be configured to
> handle application/octect-stream, but also be marked "NotInOpenMenu".
> Which is something we don't yet have.

  Now that's silly.  ghex should appear in the menu for _any_ file,
because every file type is a subtype of application/octet-stream.  If
you don't like that, uninstall ghex and the menu entry goes away.  It's
as simple as that.

   Only advanced users will need ghex, and those users will be glad ghex
shows up in the menu.

  Regards.

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Gustavo João Alves Marques Carneiro
<gjc inescporto pt> <gustavo users sourceforge net>
The universe is always one step beyond logic.