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

[Alfonso Landín <alfonslp teleline es>]

This is the same problem mentioned in
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48055

El mié, 27-02-2002 a las 13:53, Jonas De Vuyst escribió:
> Hello,
> 
> I was looking at the Nautilus source code as a newbie looking for some
> changes I could make as a way to familiarise myself for the code.
> 
> I ended up in in fm-directory-view where I noticed that the Open with
> menu is only enabled when exactly one file is selected. Is there a
> reason why, when multiple files are selected, not the selected files'
> common open actions aren't displayed in it?
> 
> If not, I'd like to try to change this behaviour.
> 
> One question I have though is what to do with the "An application..."
> and "A viewer..." menu option. Since they are modal dialogs I can't just
> open X boxes for the different files. Also, when the user only wants to
> go to the control center to edit the application list for a certain file
> type, it would not be desirable to open the dialog for every single
> file. If I were to make this change, should I just disable these two
> menu options?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Regards,
> Jonas.