From kde-core-devel Fri Jul 12 23:35:50 2002 From: David Faure Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 23:35:50 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Constructive feedback from Eugenia X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=102651698112173 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 12 July 2002 21:40, Eric Christopherson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 12:14:36PM +0200, David Faure wrote: > > On Friday 12 July 2002 05:40, Eric Christopherson wrote: > > > Reason? Mainly that in my case at least, I oftentimes right click on a file, > > > since I'm in the habit of doing so, but then I realize "oh, I just wanted to > > > open it the default way, not to choose some other app or action." It just > > > seems a little awkward to have to double click again after that, when I > > > could just select "Open" from the menu I opened up. Also, it seems > > > asymmetrical having "Open with" items listed in the menu, but no default > > > "Open." > > > > In fact.... > > "Open in New Window" does what you want. It opens the file, and guarantees > > that a new window will be used for it. > > On the contrary, LMB click might either open a new window or embed a viewer, > > depending on your preferences for this type of file. > > Actually, no; I never specified that I wanted it to be opened in a new > window. Well, you do at least seem to agree with me mostly, if you think > it'd be good to include the default app in the Open With submenu. That'd be > pretty satisfactory, but it'd still be nice to see an indication on the item > that it is in fact the default (for times when you just want to check what > would happen without actually launching). It's already there, and it's the first one in the list. The list of associated apps is sorted according to the order preference setting. - -- David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~david/ Contributing to: http://www.konqueror.org/, http://www.koffice.org/ KOffice-1.2-beta2 is out! http://dot.kde.org/1025176121/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9L2fW72KcVAmwbhARAsxaAJ9QWIdKVsvPiqQk5ma2M6904h7UUgCglR5S VJp4EFX+JCtv/9igVDnwCyM= =8hb0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----