Re: more bugs....

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 14 Jun 2002, Ryan Muldoon wrote:

> > bug 70543 -- please add commands to bzip or tar and bzip to the
> > right-click menu 
> > 
> > Isn't this what scripts support is for. I do think it would be nice to
> > include some default scripts with nautilus though.
> > 
> This is a specific case of a general problem - there should be a way to
> do more with specific MIME types.  Scripts aren't even determined by
> mime type, so you could have like 50 scripts in a list, when only 2 of
> them apply to the type of file you're looking at.  Some way of having
> "shell hooks" for other apps would be nice, so they could insert things
> into the right-click menu for given mime types.

Yeah, this is a sign of the lack of actions in the gnome-vfs mimetype 
handling. Hopefully we will get them in the future (we had them in gnome 
1.2).

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