Re: [Nautilus-list] Proposed Open with menu change

[Jonas De Vuyst <jdv foobar be>]

> I guess looking at the mime type for all the selected items and list the 
> apps that support all of the selected mime-types. Then you probably need 
> to look at the can_open_multiple_files flag and warn if the action would 
> need to launch multiple copies of the app, and let the user cancel the 
> action.

AFAICT opening multiple files in one application is currently not
supported (though the control center does let you set up this property).

I would, however, implement this feauture. In case the application
doesn't support opening multiple files I'd keep the current behavior,
which is what you described.

If I implement this feauture first and submit a patch, would this get
included in the GNOME 2 release? Making all changes described in recent
mails will take me quite some time and I assume there's a code freeze of
some sort.

> They would need to be modified to allow multiple mimetypes and multiple 
> files too. The only part that wouldn't really work with this is the 
> "Modyfy..." button and corresponding label. Perhaps that could be made 
> inactive and the label changed to some descriptive text that says why it's 
> disabled.

Ok.

What should I do with the status column in the application listing?
AFAIK there now are three possibilities, being "not in menu", "in menu
for "<filetype>", "default for "<filetype>".

I see four possible options:

1/ Have status either say "not in menu" or "in menu".

2/ Same as option 1 but have it also say what files or filetypes use the
application or viewer as default. This is my personal preference.

3/ A larger extension would be to say if it's in the menu, not in the
menu or default for every selected file (or filetype depending on the
settings). This could result into very long texts though, since the list
doesn't have a horizontal scrollbar this might not be a good idea.

4/ Finally the dialog could use a plain list instead of a
list-with-columns when multiple files are selected but I know very
little about Gtk+ and it might also be confusing.

I figure the Go There button should jump to the first (or alphabetically
last as that's how the list is sorted) known file type of the selected
files.

Regards,
Jonas.