Re: "Extension Buddy" for Fedora 9?

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On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 13:35 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > Would be nice if a user tried to open a file that didn't have an
> > application associated with it and up popped a list of applications
> > that could be installed.  Would be even cooler if the you could select
> > one to install, it installed, then opened it up for you.
> 
> It would be cool if we could autoextract mime handling information from
> desktop files installed in /usr/share/applications and generate
> "mime(application/pdf)" style rpm provides.

If we did this then we could have the nautilus "open with other
application" dialog use yum to query for other apps that can open the
file type. In combination with PackageKit to (optionally) let users
install packages this could be pretty sweet!


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