[Thunar-dev] Inconsistent 'Open with' behaviour

[Benedikt Meurer]

Stefan Stuhr wrote:
>>>What about adding an "Use as default" (or something like that) checkbox
>>>to the Open With dialog?
>>
>>That way, the chooser dialog would have different semantics depending on
>>whether it was launched from the context menu or the file properties dialog.
> 
> Yeah, but that wouldn't risk to confuse the user as much as the current
> behaviour.
> When I want to open a file with a program not already in the menu, I
> doesn't always want to use that program as the default in the future.
> 
> All I want is a choice in the Open With dialog. With a sane default for
> the checkbox, it would contribute to make Thunar Just Work, while still
> giving the user a choice.

Oki doki, thats how it's implemented now. ;-)

> Stefan

Benedikt