Well you can do that with Zeitgeist. Since we NEVER overwrite timestamps but rather add new we can always tell you which app you used to modify it recently/frequenty as well as which app you used to view the file recently/frequently.
I mean we already offer the perfect infrastructure for these problems if Gtk.RecentManager could just be enhanced the way I described in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649380 Cheers Seif On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Elia Cogodi <[email protected]> wrote: > It sure would be confusing if the shown item was just the resource. > But is that what the reminding part is about, pure resources? > > I could see some good points in actually exposing the whole "action", > both in history/journal ("opened file X with editor Y") and in a > favourites/ current work section. Visually the action would show both > the resource icon and a smaller app icon (in the corner?) and > explicitly mention the application used in textual descriptions. > Possible exception, not show icon nor text if the app is the default > handler. > > This way, I could keep "open movie with viewer" and "open movie with > editor" as separate favourite actions - to trigger them with one > click, drag them to a workspace and so on. The default handler would > just be, well, the default app used to build an action if I open a > file from a file manager or a simple search interface. > > Nothing keeps me from easily overriding it by just using the resource > information when needed: drag a "open movie X with Totem" action from > the journal/reminder thing into PiTiVi and movie X is opened with > PiTiVi (and a new "open movie X with PiTiVi" is born in current > activites) > > The way i see it, the "pure resource" view would be a grouped view of > these actions, by resource, and it could be the best for a quick > summary... but for a chronological view and some organizing tasks > dealing with specific actions (and tagging them into activities) makes > more sense. > > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Le jeudi 05 mai 2011 à 10:20 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : > >> the fact that everyone uses the MIME instead of one of > >> the applications that registered a URI in the list is just that nobody > >> has done it because it's easier to use the default handler for the > >> MIME type; > > In fact, the Shell originally did so, and it was very confusing that > > you'd never be sure what application the file would open in. So it was > > reverted to the default handler, which is more reliable. > > > > Of course, it doesn't invalidate your point that the registered app can > > be used when no default handler is available. > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnome-shell-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > > > > > > -- > Elia > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list >
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