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[Jason Smith <jason.smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think showing the default app is the ideal. We could always have it
show in a standard place. There would need to be some design on this one
but it should be possible.

On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 15:53 +0000, Neil Jagdish Patel wrote:
> 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?
> 
> Personally, I think that would be a very, very useful feature. I guess
> you could argue about where it would stop, but I think even showing the
> default app that can handle that filetype at the and of the launcher
> application icons (i.e. where it would open), would be pretty awesome.
> 
> 

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