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[Roth Robert <evfool@xxxxxxxxx>]

Showing only the default app is not the best thing I think, because opening
the file with the default application can be done by simply double-clicking
the file. It would be nice to use this possibility to show all the apps that
can open the file (based on the mime type), and the file would be opened
with the app that the file icon has been dragged into.


On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Jason Smith <jason.smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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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