On Thursday 11 July 2002 03:31 pm, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> 2) KDesktop -> RMB on Icon -> Open With
> Should be a submenu with a list of suitable applications (we know the
> mimemtype!) and then as a seperate entry the open-with-dialog.
> (I can do that :-)

Look mommy, with no hands.=20

Surprisingly we already do this, what confused me though is that if there i=
s=20
only one application (KPackage in my test case), we show=20
	"Open With..."
	"KPackage"

But if there are two applications it becomes:
	"Open With >"
		"KWrite"
		"Kompare"
		---------
		"Other"

I think such self-changing menu is confusing. Also, note that the "KPackage=
"=20
in the case above is redundant since the "Open in New Window" option=20
(Currently named "Open" here on my desktop, yay!) does the same.

Anyway, I think it would be better to always have the menu the same, so tha=
t=20
the first case would look like:
	"Open With >"
		"KPackage"
		---------
		"Other"

I'm not sure how the "Open With" section should look like if there is no=20
application listed at all. Strictly speaking you wouldn't need it at all=20
then, because the "Open" option would act as "Open With" already anyway.

In the case of kdesktop, the "Open" option (previously "Open In New Window"=
)=20
could also be named "Open with <appname>" but I'm not sure if that extra=20
information is helpfull or distracting.=20

Should the "Open With >" submenu be located directly under the "Open" optio=
n?

Cheers,
Waldo
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