Fwd: Re: Application duplication (was: Re: cdbakeoven)

[Carsten Pfeiffer]

On Saturday 20 April 2002 15:48, Thomas Zander wrote:

> > I disagree, all we'd need to do is change the K-Menu to be task-oriented
> > instead of showing applications. E.g. "Edit file" instead of a list of
> > editors to choose from. Yes, that should probably easily switchable, so
> > you can choose the editor instead of launching the default editor.
>
> Hmm?  Using the K menu is for starting applications. I am not quite sure

Why? You start applications to perform a task, right? So why explicitly start 
"kwrite" when you can "Edit a file"?

> what that has to do with documents which are opened from konqueror.  The
> document based approuch is fully implemented in konq; using mime you always
> have the same editor when you click on a certain filetype.

Yes, but if everybody used Konqueror that way, we wouldn't need a filedialog.

Cheers
Carsten Pfeiffer