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[Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfagan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Sam,

If I understand you right you want to allow applications to be opened on
the file
by dragging the file to it then im all for it. It doesnt sound like a
whole lot of work 
to get it working either. 

--fagan 

On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 23:26 +0800, Sam Spilsbury wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I was having a quick conversation with a few people about the new
> launcher DnD behaviour (highlighting applications which can handle the
> MIME type from the .desktop file). I thought it would be cool to
> extend this behavior slightly further so that the launcher will import
> the default application that handles that file type into your launcher
> if there isn't an application in the launcher that handles that file
> type.
> 
> This is useful if, for example, you want to open an image or video
> file through drag and drop, but don't need to have Eye of GNOME or
> Totem cluttering up your launcher all the time (since they are
> primarily "view only" applications).
> 
> What does design and Project Ayatana think?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Sam
>