Comments on: Where Did “Open With” Go?

By: Matthew Good

Matthew Good — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Open With is in the properties dialog now, though it’s not the same as before. As far as I know, there’s no longer a central place to go to configure the mime settings like there used to be. I think for Gnome 2.8 they redid the whole mime-type system, so as a result the old dialogs were no longer useful. The thing that I’m still looking for is the URL handler configuration.

By: Adam Rosi-Kessel

Adam Rosi-Kessel — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I see the Open With configuration dialog. But there’s still no way to actually invoke “Open With” for a folder–or am I missing something else?

By: Ari Pollak

Ari Pollak — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I just drag the folders & files I want to hear right into the XMMS playlist.

By: EdCrypt

EdCrypt — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I read somewhere that the mime changed again. I think that it’s just the UI that will be better in 2.10, i’m not sure if its true.

By: Sven Arvidsson

Sven Arvidsson — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Open with is no longer available for folders, see bug 151747 in GNOME Bugzilla.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151747

(Still hoping for this feature to be revived!)

By: Tamara

Tamara — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I was hoping the "open with" dialog would be fixed up and I threw together a few sketches which would clean up the 2.6 approach. However, I guess it was just assumed that anyone who was using the "open with" dialog would be smart enough to know the name of the command they wanted.

But I do like it better (I don't know about "end-users" though). My gf seems to find her way around it (but she rarely needs it).