Re: MIME interface suggestions

[Sander Vesik <sander_traveling yahoo co uk>]

 --- Chipzz <chipzz ULYSSIS Org> wrote: 
> On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> This is just bullshit. You don't always have root access on the box you
> work on. Think pc-rooms in a university. Someone from the cs departement
> may need ghex, while someone from the linguistic departement may not
> need it at all.
> 

Chill... you don't need root to use ghex. And somebody dfrom the liguistics
department might well use it to say check what went wrong again with the genetic
algorithm based text classifier :P

> kr,
> 
> Chipzz AKA
> Jan Van Buggenhout
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