{"id":230,"date":"2005-01-15T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-15T08:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/free_software\/linux\/where_did_open_with_go.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T05:00:00","slug":"where_did_open_with_go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2005\/01\/15\/where_did_open_with_go","title":{"rendered":"Where Did &#8220;Open With&#8221; Go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Living at the bleeding (well, leading) edge of open source development can be quite disconcerting as a desktop user. For example, in some recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnome.org\/projects\/nautilus\/\">nautilus<\/a> upgrade, the &#8220;open with&#8221; option for folders just disappeared. I used this to queue up folders of music in xmms. Moreover, the &#8220;open with application&#8230;&#8221; option for files no longer gives a nice dialogue where you can define applications for file extensions (or specific files)&#8212;now it just prompts for a command to run. Where did it all go? <\/p>\n<p> I think my blog has been too &#8220;consumer protection&#8221; focused lately&#8212;see my recent entries on <a href=\"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/the_man\/webloyalty_aka_wli_reservations_is_a_scam.html\">WLI Reservation Rewards<\/a> (now up to 25 comments!) and <a href=\"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/the_man\/uhaul_sucks.html\">U-Haul<\/a> for example. I&#8217;m afraid I&#8217;m becoming a one trick pony, so I&#8217;m going to limit my consumer complaints for a while, even though I&#8217;ve got a nice one stewing about Verizon. <a href=\"http:\/\/laniels.org\">Steve<\/a> says I&#8217;m actually a three trick pony: Linux, IP law, and consumer scams. Maybe he&#8217;s right. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living at the bleeding (well, leading) edge of open source development can be quite disconcerting as a desktop user. For example, in some recent nautilus upgrade, the &#8220;open with&#8221; option for folders just disappeared. I used this to queue up folders of music in xmms. Moreover, the &#8220;open with application&#8230;&#8221; option for files no longer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}