Constructive feedback from Eugenia

David Faure david at mandrakesoft.com
Sat Jul 13 00:35:50 BST 2002


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Friday 12 July 2002 21:40, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 12:14:36PM +0200, David Faure wrote:
> > On Friday 12 July 2002 05:40, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> Actually, no; I never specified that I wanted it to be opened in a new
> window. Well, you do at least seem to agree with me mostly, if you think
> it'd be good to include the default app in the Open With submenu. That'd be
> pretty satisfactory, but it'd still be nice to see an indication on the item
> that it is in fact the default (for times when you just want to check what
> would happen without actually launching).

It's already there, and it's the first one in the list.
The list of associated apps is sorted according to the order preference setting.

- -- 
David FAURE, david at mandrakesoft.com, faure at kde.org
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~david/
Contributing to: http://www.konqueror.org/, http://www.koffice.org/
KOffice-1.2-beta2 is out! http://dot.kde.org/1025176121/
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

iD8DBQE9L2fW72KcVAmwbhARAsxaAJ9QWIdKVsvPiqQk5ma2M6904h7UUgCglR5S
VJp4EFX+JCtv/9igVDnwCyM=
=8hb0
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----





More information about the kde-core-devel mailing list