D11569: Improve consistency of "Open With" UI by always showing top app inline

[Nathaniel Graham]

ngraham added a comment.


  In D11569#231663 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D11569#231663>, @mmustac wrote:
  
  > I have two questions regarding this "open with" topic.
  >  Is the displayed app the one which is also set as default for this file type or the first alternative (2nd app) ? If it's the default one why should someone make a right click on a file to open it with his/her default app instead of making a single/double click on it?
  
  
  It's rather odd that there's no Open item in Dolphin's context menu in the first place, and this patch remedies that. Also, this is a general API, so other clients can potentially benefit from it even when it's not used in a context menu. (e.g. Gwenview could adopt this to make it easier to open images in other apps, where currently the only option is to use a sub-menu)
  
  > The second point: Shouldn't the "Open with" stuff be at the very beginning of the menu when we have a file selected for quick access? (1. opening, 2. create new files (for folders), 3. direct file operations, 4. additional file operations, 5. everything else)
  
  I would approve of that. It's what macOS does, FWIW:
  
  F5762927: finder menu.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F5762927>
  
  As you can see from the above image, macOS doesn't tell you what app will launch in response to the Open action, so this patch would actually represent a usability improvement over that. However, re-ordering the menu would need to be changed in Dolphin, not here in KIO. That change (if we do it) should go into 18.08.0, to make sure that it can rely on this change (if it's accepted).

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  https://phabricator.kde.org/D11569

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