On Nov 12, 2007 10:36 AM, Alexander Larsson <alexl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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! not only that, but it would negate one of my problems with the lack of an install everything option - that I don't know what apps can open a file unless i've installed it /me hoping that i haven't started that topic up again... -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
