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On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 16:45, Ian Santopietro <isantop@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> No, I prefer the current behavior. There may be ways to expand upon
> it, but it's sufficient for now.


i think the current behaviour is insufficient for the user, but for the
developer it is a good place to start.
"open" was an important menu item when most of the DE was all about
"opening files" or "opening folders".
Nowadays we have multimedia objects, some of them are interactive User
Interfaces.
It makes no sense to give much prominence to the "open" metaphor anymore,
since most of the actions performed on today's content are "view", "view in
fullscreen", "play", "stop", "edit", "manage", "hold", "release", "pause"
and "archive".
"Open" has no or little place in the semantics of our every day DE of
today, except when related to file&folder-like documents.