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