Re: [gcmd-dev] viewer/editor by extension

[Marcus Bjurman]

On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 15:07, Magnus Stålnacke wrote:
> Christian Schubnell wrote:
> 
> >>This is a way to have different default apps per extention.
> >>As a tip: you could also have this pointing to shell scripts
> >>doing what _you_ want...
> >
> >Yes, i know this function. But by the method of servant salamander
> >i can press F3 on every file i want. And then the defines programm
> >startes. In GC i cant do that. 
> >
> Try enter.

I think what Christian is suggesting is that we should make the view and
edit operations on a file more flexible. Today only a default
application can be configured, but what christian want is to be able to
override those default apps for some file types.

That would make it possible to have for example galeon as the "viewer"
and bluefish as the "editor" for html files. This can't be done with the
mime database as it only supports one "open with" application for each
mime type.

/Marcus