"Open With" dialog not user-friendly

[A. Walton]

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Thomas Novin <thomas_ml at xyz.pp.se> wrote:
> This bug really needs some attention:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/18995
>
> It should, AFAIK, be a high priority bug and a release stopper. It is
> not reasonable to expect that the average Ubuntu-user is able to find
> the correct helper application for the file that they are downloading
> and want to open.
>
> If you open a file from Nautilus and select Open With > Other
> Application that looks just great. Why not have the same dialog from
> Firefox?
>
> Thanks..
>

The Nautilus OpenWithDialog widget needs to be moved to Gtk+ for use
cases just like this one. We discussed it before, but nobody's done
the groundwork and put together a patch to do it. The code should be
excisable from Nautilus without too much whining; it uses some of
libeel, but should be readily replaceable with code that's already in
the stack.

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2008-March/msg00110.html
for context.

-A. Walton

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