More default applications

[Adam Petaccia]

On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 12:03 +0100, Dean Sas wrote:
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> Mikko Ohtamaa wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
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> > Recently here was a very fruitful discussion about default folders (xdg).
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> > I was wondering are there any plans to add more default applications to
> > Gnome's "Preferred applications". Currently it has web browser, email
> > client and terminal.
> > 
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> There was a discussion some months ago about that, I think the majority
> of it on the gnome usability list. As far as I'm aware nothing concrete
> came of it.
> 
> Note it is possibly to change the default application for a filetype by
> right clicking and using the properties option on a file.
The problem with this approach is that as a user, I would like to open
_images_ in <someimageprogram> foo; I do not want to "associate jpegs
with foo", bitmaps with foo, pngs with foo, etc.


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