More default applications

[Dean Sas]

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Adam Petaccia wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 12:03 +0100, Dean Sas wrote:
> Mikko Ohtamaa wrote:
>>>> 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.

I've just looked, and in Feisty there's also Accessibility and Multimedia.

> 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.

A spec came out of it actually
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/enhanced-preferred-apps

This is usually the kind of thing that should be implemented by GNOME
(upstream) though, not Ubuntu. There was a discussion upstream about it
here: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2007-January/msg00052.html

There's also an upstream bug
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171871 about 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.

Right, I was just explaining a work-around as it's not always obvious.

Dean

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