finding the right app

[houghi]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 09:16:10AM -0700, Ray Andrews wrote:
> On 19/10/12 08:41 AM, houghi wrote:
> >On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 09:41:48AM +0200, e-letter wrote:
> >>Solved, by installation of 'xfce-appfinder'.
> Speaking of finding apps, that reminds me.  Why is it that, if you
> click on some file with an extension that xfce doesn't know what to
> do with, a dialogue box pops up and tells you that you need to
> select an application to open it (that's all just as it should be of
> course) but when you select 'browse' you get dumped to the root of
> your filesystem?  Would it not be better if it offered you a list of
> possible apps?  Or am I doing something wrong?

I assume you are talking about Thunar? I never use it (I prefer mc) but
when I doubleclicked on prboom.wad I get first 'Recommenden Applications',
the 'Other applications'

Perhaps it depends on how you do the installation. I have installed
openSUSE 12.2 with XFCE from the start. Instead of selecting KDE or GNOME,
select Other and you can select XFCE (and some other options).

openSUSE then does the installation. I add some stuff after that. e.g.
some xfce4-panel-plugin things, geeqie and kdenlive.

houghi
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