Re: Nautilus Browser Mode: View As

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 03:13, J. Gardner Biggs wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 09:27 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 21:27, Mikoyan wrote:
> > > Hi List,
> > > 
> > > I just upgraded to nautilus 2.5.7. To my horror :-) I noticed that
> > > the "view as ..." entry in the context menu has disseapered *in browser
> > > mode*. I do agry that it certainly does not belong in the spatial mode.
> > > But is does belong in browser mode. (imho off course).
> > > 
> > > But what a relief when I noticed that my documents still opened in 
> > > my favourite bonobo component. But I started fiddling around with
> > > MIME settings (right click - open with - other applications -
> > > go there button), and now jpg items open up in the GIMP, and I cannot
> > > see how to get it back to the old behaviour ...
> > > 
> > > So 2 predictable questions: 
> > > 1) Is the removal of "view as" in the context menu *in browser mode*
> > > a bug? Or is intented (hope not)?
> > > 2) How can I let nautilus open my jpg files back in the eog image viewer
> > > (embedded that is).
> > 
> > It was intended. We're moving away from non-directory views in nautilus.
> > You can still get it by manually configuring your mime settings.
> 
> If nautilus is now supposed to look to the file extension, and if one
> does not exist, look into the file to determine what type it is, why
> can't I right click on gar.conf.mk and edit it with gedit?
> 
> The menu gives me no options in choosing a program to open it with.
> Nautilus won't even let me view the file in its window.  This is a big
> problem.  This behavior is in both spacial and browser modes.
> 
> Is this the desired behavior?  I have installed gnome-2.5.4 via GARNOME.

It might be due to the new mime database. Maybe its detected as some
makefile mime type and there are no default app for makefiles. With the
change to the mime db we're gonna need a bit of tweaking to get things
working perfectly again.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
 Alexander Larsson                                            Red Hat, Inc 
                   alexl redhat com    alla lysator liu se 
He's a scrappy Amish librarian on the hunt for the last specimen of a great 
and near-mythical creature. She's a cosmopolitan cat-loving snake charmer from 
aristocratic European stock. They fight crime!