On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 10:19 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: > On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 09:39 -0400, Ryan Lortie wrote: > > Hello everyone. > > > > I brought the issue up today with Sebastien that I'd like for him to > > disable Nautilus's filetype matchup code (the one that displays the > > annoying and occasionally comical dialog box when the extension doesn't > > match the detected mime type). > > > > He's not comfortable reversing upstream decision so close to release so > > he encouraged me to bring the issue up on this list. The GNOME bug has > > received zero attention since I reopened it just after the 2.12.0 > > release failed to address the issue. > > > > (( http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309862 )) > > > > Further up in the bug report Nicholas Miell comments "Current solution > > is just unpleasant without actually doing anything." and "You should > > probably disable the feature entirely until it's actually useful." > > > > This problem bites users an awful lot in legitimate normal use-cases > > with a scary warning. Unless anyone knows a good reason otherwise, can > > we please get rid of this hack until it actually works? > > It used to be the case that you never got a warning when the two > mimetypes would be opened in the same applications, but apparently Manny > broke that with his recent change to this code. We should at least get > this old behaviour back, which should fix your cgi/diff problem. > > The text of the dialog is sort of bogus, it really isn't likely to be a > security problem. There is a problem though. If we fix the warning to > not trigger anymore when the same app would launch then the warning will > only happen in cases where we're not really sure what to do with the > file. In that case, should we just always trust the sniffed type, or the > filename type? One is guaranteed to be wrong...
Would it be feasible to present a dialog saying something to the effect of "I can't tell whether this is type X or type Y-- which do you think?", with buttons to "Open as type X" and "Open as type Y"? It's still somewhat bothersome, but it saves a right click. -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
