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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [plasma] [Bug 293576]=?UTF-8?Q?=20=E2=80=9COpen=20in=20File=20Manager=E2=80=9D=20uses=20default=20as
From:       dedanna <dedanna1029 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2013-11-18 6:28:41
Message-ID: bug-293576-17878-juqvzS58HB () http ! bugs ! kde ! org/
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--- Comment #31 from dedanna <dedanna1029@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to comment #29)
> (In reply to comment #25)
> > Why would you even want to open a folder
> > in VLC..? I'm guessing for DVD/Blu-Ray folders?
> 
> If you open a folder in VLC with media content, it can play what is in that
> folder or create it as a play list. This saves one the trouble of opening
> VLC and adding the folder to media on the computer.

But how often is one going to want to make that as a default, vs. just an
option to open with from file manager when they play their dvd or whatever? I
want to be able to get to my files in file manager, not have them open with
something I don't want them to open in! I want to tell them again what to open
my files with from file manager, anything else is taking away my freedom of
choice. There are many different types of files and folders. A file manager is
a file manager, it is not VLC, in particular when VLC was never requested to
open for anything to begin with. Who would, to view any random file or folder
either one, ask for it to open in VLC all the time? A file manager is a file
manager. A video player is a video player, and should only be used for video
files/folders, not for all types.

The very statement seems rather silly to me, that one would want folders to
open in VLC by default. No, one would much more often than not want folders to
open in file manager. It also seems ridiculous to me than when one opens file
manager from their desktop, that they would for any reason get anything other
than file manager to open. The click when I tried to open file manager from my
desktop, system tray, anywhere, opened in VLC. I can not believe there would be
any excuses for this happening. Dolphin, Konqueror, an actual file manager is
what should have opened, then I should be able from there to open whichever
file or folder in whatever program I wanted it to open in.

I don't think I should have to say, "Read my lips, VLC is not a file manager,
it's a video player," so I won't. However, I think that you do need to see that
when one opens one thing, another shouldn't open. They are two completely
different things.

This is a bug that VLC is opening rather than an actual file manager, and
should be fixed, and yes, the "Open with..." sub-menu should be there in file
manager for people to choose what to open when they right-click on that file or
folder.

This has in the past happened with other file managers such as Nautilus, and
was considered a bug. It should be now as well for Dolphin.

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