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

[Marcus Bjurman]

On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 20:23, Marcus Bjurman wrote:
> 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.

Oh well, you can have multiple "open with" applications but you can't
know which one is useable as a viewer and which one is useable as an
editor.

/Marcus