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| > "Preferred Applications" - I think you are right it needs to be expanded. But just a thought - how does this relate to mime types and the applications that can open them, and the final xdg decision on which application opens them? But it may be handy to duplicate that option here. (The natural place for it seems to be in the file manager: file properties.) | > "Preferred Applications" - I think you are right it needs to be expanded. But just a thought - how does this relate to mime types and the applications that can open them, and the final xdg decision on which application opens them? But it may be handy to duplicate that option here. (The natural place for it seems to be in the file manager: file properties.) |
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| | >>I agree. There is some lack of intuitive application to the settings. The user can be mislead into believe one particular thing is being changed when it is actually something else. |
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| | >>(By the way, you're doing fine. This is not the best wiki engine, so I think you've made the best of it.) |
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| | >>The issue of mime types is something that should be handled at the DE level in such a way that all applications know what is what. That is not being done now. This is most definately not a file manager issue; it is an environmental issue. That one confusion is what causes so much trouble. A file manager, on the other hand, is an application which interfaces directly with the OS-level connection to the file-system. Entirely different and separate. - KitchM |