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

[Sven Arvidsson]

> On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 23:59 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> > the attached screenshot shows the thunar "open with" dialog for a pdf
> > file.  the recommended applications are indeed capable pdf reader
> > applications.  as well, all other applications are available under the
> > "other applications" dropdown.
> 
> Isn't this pretty much what you get in the Nautilus context menu when
> you right click a file?
> 
> First the "Open with Foo" for your default application, and then "Open
> with Bar", "Open with Baz", etc. for the rest of the recommended
> applications.
> 
> If you want to change the default applications this is easy to do from
> the properties for a the file, which only list the recommended
> applications.
> 
> There's very little reason to use "Open with other application" unless
> you really want something that isn't in the list of recommended
> applications, isn't it?

Hi again,

Do you still feel that Nautilus should have an "Open With" dialog
similar to Thunar?

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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