On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 18:46 -0800, Peter Gordon wrote: > On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 20:50 +0000, Matt Medland wrote: > > I'm proposing that mime-type association be centralised in the > > Preferences>Preferred Applications area, since that seems the natural > > place that anyone would go to. This would, potentially, be useful for > > everyone. > > Er..didn't we do this in GNOME 1.x with its old control-center? And > didn't it fail quite miserably? :)
It did, although it wasn't helped by the fact that 9 times out of 10, it just never worked :) I'll certainly add my name to the "wary" list here, though... I'm not sure that most users should ever need to concern themselves with mimetypes to a deeper level than the simple "Open With" UI we currently have. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
