Re: Default file manager and folder associations

2012-06-27 Thread David Faure
On Sunday 17 June 2012 12:49:46 Ambroz Bizjak wrote: > That doesn't quite work, for me at least. See the bug I reported > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297720 > Nobody seems to care though. I posted a fix for that bug on June 18, and asked for testing. Nobody seems to care, though :-) --

Re: Default file manager and folder associations

2012-06-18 Thread Dawit A
I doubt changing the text would make much more difference. People will simply read what they want to read and ignore everything else just as in warning/message dialog boxes! After all the current option itself says "Remember application associations for this file type" not for this specific file or

Re: Default file manager and folder associations

2012-06-18 Thread Mark
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Mark wrote: > On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Thomas Lübking > wrote: >> Am 17.06.2012, 22:18 Uhr, schrieb Jacopo De Simoi : >> >> >>> so in the end I agree with you that the crucial issue is the misleading >>> caption of the checkbox in the “open with…” dialog.

Re: Default file manager and folder associations

2012-06-18 Thread Mark
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Thomas Lübking wrote: > Am 17.06.2012, 22:18 Uhr, schrieb Jacopo De Simoi : > > >> so in the end I agree with you that the crucial issue is the misleading >> caption of the checkbox in the “open with…” dialog. >> Who is the right person to discuss with? > > > it's

Re: Default file manager and folder associations

2012-06-17 Thread Thomas Lübking
Am 17.06.2012, 22:18 Uhr, schrieb Jacopo De Simoi : so in the end I agree with you that the crucial issue is the misleading caption of the checkbox in the “open with…” dialog. Who is the right person to discuss with? it's not like i didn't have to look it up myself (lxr.kde.org) http://api.kde

Re: Default file manager and folder associations

2012-06-17 Thread Jacopo De Simoi
On Sunday 17 June 2012 19:17:41 Thomas Lübking wrote: > You want to open directories with the default mime handler just as images > or an mp3, that's why they're there. > If someone sets an "rm -rf $1" script as default directory handler, that's > actually his problem - you can't fix stupidity.

Re: Default file manager and folder associations

2012-06-17 Thread Thomas Lübking
Am 17.06.2012, 18:18 Uhr, schrieb Jacopo De Simoi : a mounted media /is/ inode/directory, if you want to treat things differently you'd need sth. more advanced that inspects path or content and runs a special app in case. -> bash script + service file or write sth. with a nifty config gui. Let

Re: Default file manager and folder associations

2012-06-17 Thread Jacopo De Simoi
On Sunday 17 June 2012 17:51:26 Thomas Lübking wrote: > afaics the original forum request turns out to be a misassumption > about what "remember" does when "opening with..." -> the should or > could be "add to associations" checkbox (even if that would be done > automatically, just for disambiation

Re: Default file manager and folder associations

2012-06-17 Thread Thomas Lübking
afaics the original forum request turns out to be a misassumption about what "remember" does when "opening with..." -> the should or could be "add to associations" checkbox (even if that would be done automatically, just for disambiation) a mounted media /is/ inode/directory, if you want to treat

Re: Default file manager and folder associations

2012-06-17 Thread Jacopo De Simoi
On Sunday 17 June 2012 12:21:07 todd rme wrote: > On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Jacopo De Simoi wrote: > > Dear kcd, > > > > I am thinking for a possible fix for bug #293576 [1], but I could not > > make > > up my mind so far. As far as I understand the situation is as follows: > > > > - T

Re: Default file manager and folder associations

2012-06-17 Thread Ambroz Bizjak
That doesn't quite work, for me at least. See the bug I reported https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297720 Nobody seems to care though. On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 12:21 PM, todd rme wrote: > On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Jacopo De Simoi wrote: >> Dear kcd, >> >>  I am thinking for a possible

Re: Default file manager and folder associations

2012-06-17 Thread todd rme
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Jacopo De Simoi wrote: > Dear kcd, > >  I am thinking for a possible fix for bug #293576 [1], but I could not make > up my mind so far. As far as I understand the situation is as follows: > > - There is no explicit way of setting the default file manager for the K

Default file manager and folder associations

2012-06-17 Thread Jacopo De Simoi
Dear kcd, I am thinking for a possible fix for bug #293576 [1], but I could not make up my mind so far. As far as I understand the situation is as follows: - There is no explicit way of setting the default file manager for the KDE workspace; however, there is an implicit way of doing that