[Xfce-bugs] [XFCE 0000119]: Open With Applications

[purslow at sympatico.ca]

040220 xfce-bugs at xfce.org wrote:
> 
> The following bug has been RESOLVED.
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> http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=119
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> Reporter:                   AFCommando
> Handler:                    edscott
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> Project:                    XFCE
> Bug ID:                     0000119
> Category:                   xffm
> Reproducibility:            always
> Severity:                   tweak
> Priority:                   normal
> Status:                     resolved
> Resolution:                 not a bug
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> Date Submitted:             2004-02-20 03:31 GMT
> Last Modified:              2004-02-20 13:15 GMT
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> Summary:                    Open With Applications
> Description: 
> Right now, it seems xffm remembers which application go with which files,
> but checking for the first period.
> 
> For example, I open Firestorm.LSA.avi with xine and I tell xffm to
> remember that. If i look in application.xml, I see
> <extension id=".LSA.avi" application="xine"/>. xffm seems to look for the
> first period and remember everything after it.
> 
> I think it would probably be more desirable to have xffm looks for the
> last period. So that 
> <extension id=".avi" application="xine"/> would affect Firestorm.LSA.avi
> also, which it does not right now.
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> 
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>  edscott - 2004-02-20 13:13 GMT 
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> The problem with what you suggest is with files like foo.ps.gz, foo.tar.gz
> and foo.gz. The first should open with gv, the second with tar -zxf and
> the third with gunzip. 
> 
> Also, if you open and remember a file foo.avi, then <extension id=".avi"
> application="xine"/> will be saved. This will affect all files like
> foo.whatever.avi, unless there is a <extension id="whatever.avi">
> registered, which will take precedence.
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i looked at the XFCE bug site & cdn't find a 'comment' button
& someone suggested simply commenting of the bugs mailing list, so :

if the problem is w files ending '.gz' (or eg '.bz2'),
why not simply make an exception for them in the rules for opening files:
files w those ext'ns either w~b opened or wb uncompressed first ?
apart from compression ext'ns, it's always the final '.xx' we want, surely.

BTW the Gentoo bug site allows comments,
so bug reporters can reply to responses & a dialog can develop.

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