Bug#408894: nautilus: please provide "recommended applications" section in the "Open with other application..." menu

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Mon Jan 29 09:52:59 CET 2007


Le dimanche 28 janvier 2007 à 19:37 -0500, Michael Gilbert a écrit :
> Package: nautilus
> Version: 2.14.3-7
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> the nautilus "Open with other application..." menu should list
> "recommended applications" first in the list of applications to
> associate with file open.  xfce's thunar does this quite well.
> please review thunar's behavior and update nautilus to do the same.
> 
> the current behavior, which involves showing all possible applications,
> is information-overload to the average user.

This is mostly caused by the Debian menu which adds gazillions of
applications that aren't able to open any kind of file anyway.

Could you describe the "thunar behavior" that you want to see?
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