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Bug 89559 - Notification if no viewer/application installed for a given known file type
Notification if no viewer/application installed for a given known file type
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-vfs
Classification: Deprecated
Component: MIME and file/program mapping
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gnome-vfs maintainers
gnome-vfs maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-07-31 21:04 UTC by Nils Pedersen
Modified: 2006-01-07 12:08 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Nils Pedersen 2002-07-31 21:04:26 UTC 
Nautilus should provide proactive notification if no viewer/application
installed for a given known file type. A similar label to read only would
be nice. If you want I will provide the icon.

Nautilus should only look in GNOME's current path (ie nothing fancy) for
the binary names to determin if a viewer/application is available.
Comment 1 Luis Villa 2002-08-01 18:31:54 UTC 
Should this actually be filed against vfs, naut-maint?
Comment 2 Abel Cheung 2003-08-08 01:10:41 UTC 
Remove string keyword. Yes, it looks like gnome-vfs is a better place
to discuss this.
Comment 3 Sebastien Bacher 2005-01-22 21:52:37 UTC 
Is that still an issue ? What do you want to change exactly ? The icons
rendering ? The way to open a document ?
Comment 4 Calum Benson 2005-03-04 17:52:38 UTC 
I think Nils (who doesn't work on GNOME any more btw, so probably isn't reading
bug reports any more either) was just suggesting that an emblem be placed on
document icons for which no default viewer was currently defined.  

To that extent it's still valid, but personally I'm not sure it's a big deal, as
you'll find out when you try to open the file-- and if you need to open it, you
won't have any choice but to pick a viewer for it anyway...
Comment 5 Yaron Tausky 2006-01-07 10:59:36 UTC 
Info provided, reopening. Please close if you feel this feature isn't really needed.
Comment 6 Christian Neumair 2006-01-07 12:08:11 UTC 
Resolving as WONTFIX. Calum explained what this is all about, and I don't think we'll do that. Thanks for your help Yaron.