Dear James, Am Freitag, den 13.06.2008, 13:52 +0000 schrieb James Johnston:
> 1. When I right-click a file in Nautilus and select “Open With”, > the list of applications is not sorted. This is quite annoying as > there is a long list of applications. Is this by design or a bug? Applications that are associated with a MIME type that pretty much match the MIME type of the file are preferred over generic ones. For instance, if you have an XML-derived bookmark format, the idea is to display all bookmark applications first, next all XML editors and at the end generic text editors. In what specific situation does this break? > 2. Also, when I start typing to search for an application in the > list, it would be nice if my typing acted as a filter instead of just > scrolling to the text. E.g. currently if I type “spreadsheet” this > yields nothing. It would be nice if all other choices were eliminated > and “OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet” was the only remaining choice. I > feel this would greatly expand the usability when trying to find > something in a long list of applications. > > > > Between the behavior of #1 and the not-implemented status of #2, it makes > finding something to open with very difficult. I agree that a dynamic search where the result list is updated is way more intuitive. Feel free to come up with a patch, I would definitly integrate it. Sidenote A: The launcher selector of the "Add to Panel" dialog also does filtering, and I think that in general, live filtering is preferable over live selection. Maybe a usability expert should figure out whether the directory search in Nautilus or in the file chooser would be more intuitive with live filtering. Sidenote B: You should not have to use this dialog, really. I guess some MIME associations are not installed. Please report these bugs so that distributors and application authors can fix their applications. best regards, Christian Neumair -- Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list