[Thunar-dev] Inconsistent 'Open with' behaviour

Bernhard Walle bernhard.walle at gmx.de
Sat Mar 11 18:59:25 CET 2006


Hello,

Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> [2006-03-11]:
> 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. ;-)

Great!


Regards,
  Bernhard
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