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[Martín "A. Casco" <martincasco@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well I think that this it's unnecessary, it's more quickly and simple
open a file with right click and select "Open with" instate drug and
drop the file into the launcher and select the app we want.

El jue, 10-02-2011 a las 11:18 -0500, Jason Smith escribió:

> On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 18:10 +0200, Roth Robert wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Hmm this is a good point, maybe 2 or 3 then? Certainly we want to cap
> it.
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 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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