GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 155612
remove the preferred app/text editor tab ?
Last modified: 2009-11-14 18:23:22 UTC
The current code uses the old mime system, so it needs to be removed or to be rewritten for the new mime system. Is there any good reason to keep it here ? This association is a standard mime one and should be done in nautilus like the other ones ... Let me know if you think that should be removed, I'll write a patch for this.
I think it should go. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136784 for an example on how it can confuse people. Bryan what do you think ?
*** Bug 136230 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Marco: yea, the text editor preference is obsolete now. Everything is handled through the MIME interface so we should look to removing this item. But I might hold off on a patch for it right now since the control-center is getting an overhaul for this gnome-2.10 timeframe. I think I'm supposed to build a web of tracking bugs for how the control-center is being redone. I'll cc Marco and Sebastien on that bug if you guys would like. Anyway, the others are broken URL handlers which need to stay for a little while longer (until we have a good fix for that too). And the terminal will probably never leave.
What do you mean by " the control-center is getting an overhaul for this gnome-2.10 timeframe" ? Do you have more details on what's being changed for 2.10 ? I had the feeling that the control-center was not really actively developped during the 2.7/2.8 cycle and would like to help for 2.9/2.10 so please Cc me on the interesting bug yes. BTW what's broken with the URL handlers ?
could we take a decision on this ? People keep using it and wonder why it doesn't work ...
*** Bug 152263 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 34021 [details] [review] hide the text editor tab I propose we check this one in on both branches. Even if we are still unsure where we are going for 2.10 a quick fix for this is really necessary. We shouldnt ship not working UI ...
Ok, no reply from the maintainers, I've commited the one line change to the glade file to hide the "Text Editor" tab to gnome-2-8 and HEAD, I hope that's ok.
Closing this as FIXED since it has been commited and fixed.
I disagree, this is a workaround. There is no point to keep the code if it's not used. Should we removed the code too ? Is there any plan to adapt this capplet ?
*** Bug 166372 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 166923 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Is there a workaround to actually have the file manager open the correct text editor? Hiding the option to set the default editor is one thing ... how does one actually set the default editor. I've been using vi too long now to switch the emacs.
right click on a text file in nautilus, properties, open with
That doesn't work. It opens it in the editor of choice once (because that's what I've chosen to open it with), then I click the file again, and it'll open in the old default.
It does work; however, the situation now seems to be that every particular kind of text file needs to have this set independently. That's a lot more work than should be necessary.
Braden is absolutely correct here IMO: there must be a way to set the default editor for the entire system at once, without having to go through every possible MIME type and set it individually (or at least without the _USER_ having to do it)--that's just ridiculous! Also, the documentation for this is all messed up: it hasn't been updated at all since these changes were made. I'm looking at Desktop User Guide -> Configuring Your Desktop -> Preferred Applications, and it still talks about separate tabs for web browser and email client (which are now combined on the "Internet" tab) and terminal emulator (which now exists on the System tab), and text editor, which doesn't exist at all anywhere. Very confusing. BTW, I'm using Ubuntu 6.06.1.
I filed a separate doc bug about that issue.
Maybe one should think about how one can do the MIME configuration with this piece of software, too. I find the right click mime setting a bit complicated, too. So to have again other tabs for Text, etc.
I was wondering if anything has been done in this area. The preferred applications menu is still there, but this thread is suggesting we don't use it? The text section is still commented out. Why can't we change the code to use the new mime configuration, so that changing it there would be the same as right clicking?
We already have a bug about setting mime-type associations (bug 169670). Since the original issue has been resolved, this bug should remain closed and further discussion about setting the application for text editing should happen on bug 169670.