On Sat, 2025-10-25 at 08:15 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > The underlying problem is Caja gives *ONLY* 2 choices to open a file: > 1. a fixed default tool. > 2. a list of _all_ tools used to open that file type. > > Today I wanted to about the simplest possible edit of a PDF. > Select a single page to be saved as its one file. > > On my system the first option is to open it with Atril. An excellent > tool allowing one to read, search, or print the document. > > The second option is effectively a pseudo-random list of all tools > ever > used to open a PDF. [Alphabetizing the list is uninformative.] > > I would like to have three choices: > 1. view/print > 2. primary manipulation tool > 3. selection of special purpose tools.
I don’t use Caja, but maybe the 'caja-actions' extension package would be useful for this? -- Jan Claeys (please don't CC me when replying to the list)

