El mar, 18-03-2008 a las 14:02 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero escribió: > Hi, > > Right now, the "Open with another application" dialog lives in > nautilus/libnautilus-private/nautilus-open-with-dialog.[ch]. This > dialog uses the machinery in GIO's GAppInfo to figure out which apps can > be used to open a file of a certain MIME-type. > > There's a long-standing annoyance in Firefox, where it implements "open > with" by starting a file chooser in /usr/bin. Now, if you complain > about the file chooser *right here* I will ignore your mail :) My point > is that it would be nice if the "open with" GUI were available to all > apps, not just Nautilus. > > We could do a few things: > > * Move nautilus-open-with-dialog.[ch] into GTK+. From a super-quick > read of the code, this uses no Nautilus-only stuff except for some of > libeel's convenience error dialogs, and some "the MIME info changed" > signal. > > * Leave the dialog in place inside Nautilus, and provide a D-Bus service > for the "open with" GUI. I'm 51% leaning towards this option, since > then this would have a chance of working with a desktop-specific GUI, > depending on your choice of desktop environment --- aside from promoting > the use of D-Bus for this kind of stuff. > > Thoughts?
What about the "open with..." menu items machinery? This is reimplemented in more than one place (being eog and gthumb the examples I recall at the moment). Claudio -- Claudio Saavedra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
