Constructive feedback from Eugenia

[David Faure]

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On Friday 12 July 2002 05:40, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 03:31:59PM -0700, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > 1) KDesktop -> RMB on Icon -> Open in New Window
> > This is copied from Konqy (hurrah for code sharing) but makes indeed little 
> > sense in this context. Should just be "Open" (David, is that hard to change 
> > for kdesktop only?)
> 
> I agree with this; but also, I've been wondering for quite a long time if it
> would be possible for the context menus for file icons to have a simple
> "Open" item. The item would do exactly the same thing as when you
> double-click on the icon.
> 
> Reason? Mainly that in my case at least, I oftentimes right click on a file,
> since I'm in the habit of doing so, but then I realize "oh, I just wanted to
> open it the default way, not to choose some other app or action." It just
> seems a little awkward to have to double click again after that, when I
> could just select "Open" from the menu I opened up. Also, it seems
> asymmetrical having "Open with" items listed in the menu, but no default
> "Open."

In fact....
"Open in New Window" does what you want. It opens the file, and guarantees
that a new window will be used for it.
On the contrary, LMB click might either open a new window or embed a viewer,
depending on your preferences for this type of file.

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