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

[edscott wilson garcia]

El lun, 23-02-2004 a las 10:57, purslow at sympatico.ca escribió:

> > 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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> > Xfce-bugs at xfce.org
> > http://lunar-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce-bugs
> 
> 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'),

We cannot be sure other composed extension may not appear.

> 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.

Yes, that is why if no application is defined for ".foo.gz", then ".gz"
will be used (if defined, of course). I got a bit mixed up with 4.0.x
and 4.1 versions. 4.0.x does not work all that right, but 4.1 should
have no problems.


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

In that respect, the xfce bug tracker allows you to add "bugnotes" which
would be equivalent to what you describe at the Gentoo site.

regards.