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[Sam Spilsbury <smspillaz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Shane Fagan
<shanepatrickfagan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

This is already implemented.

Rather what I was thinking was that if an application that handles
that MIME type isn't already in the launcher, then it will be
"temporarily added" to the launcher.

> 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
>
>
>



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Sam Spilsbury