Re: "Open With" -> "An Application"

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinout cs vu nl>]

Hello Alexander,

> > list, you have to go searching on your own in /usr/bin. Showing the
> > application list from the Run dialog is the least I'd expect.
>
> Well. The application list in the run dialog is constructed from all
> desktop files, and in the new system those desktop files are supposed to
> list the mimetypes they handle, so if the app is in the run dialog it
> should already be in the open with menu. (Unless it didn't list some
> mimetype it really supported, which should be fixed.)

On my system, gpdf has associated itself twice with PDF files (as 'PDF 
viewer' and as 'PDF file viewer'), but abiword hasn't associated itself 
with msword files. This might be a bug in those apps, but I am certain 
that we would be *helping the user* if Nautilus would offer a choice 
from the Run-dialog list, and only if that doesn't help the user could 
browse the file system.

Just the time it takes for gtkfilesel to build the contents list of 
/usr/bin would be enough reason to go that route (18 seconds on my 
Athlon 600/256MB system).

regards,

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