GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 46151
UI for opening multiple items into specific applications
Last modified: 2012-05-03 05:15:20 UTC
This is related to bug 45711. Nautilus currently provides UI for opening a single item the default way (either viewer or application), or a specific way (choose viewer or application). When multiple items are selected, Nautilus only allows opening them the default way. There is no UI to let the user specify a particular application with which to open all selected files. So if the default way to open image files, for example, is with the Image Viewer, there is no way to select three image files and open them all with the GIMP (you can only do it one at a time). Making such a UI might be somewhat tricky and require some iteration to make it good. A special case that would be easier to get right is to have this only work if all selected items are the same type (then you could use the current "Open With" dialog with very little change; you'd just have to remove or redo the "file-specific" part of it). However, it seems too confusing/frustrating to have the open-multiple-in-specific-app feature work only if all selected items are the same type. (What if there are two .jpg files and one .png file?) So probably if/when we address this we should design a solution for the general case. ------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2001-03-26 11:13:13 ---- QA Assigning to self. ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 20:57 -------
Changing to "old" target milestone for all bugs laying around with no milestone set.
*** Bug 48055 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Also see bug 105653
Is anyone working on this? Does the new mimetype system provide information which makes it simpler to implement this feature?
*** Bug 309671 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The bug above (309671) marked as duplicate is *not* the same bug reported here! The author of this bug is talking about selecting multiple files, right clicking with the mouse, and not having a the ability to choose different applications. My bug report however (309771) is addressing the fact that if a user selects 30 mp3 files and selects open, the files should be Qued in the playlist. This is not the current behavior and depnding on the situation nautilus gives a warning windows: "This will open ## windows" ## refering to the number of files selected. A user might want to open 30 image files in 30 spearate windows, but I really doubt they would want to open 30 mp3 files and play them all simultaneously.
> Does the new mimetype system provide information which makes it simpler to implement this feature? Well if all items have the same MIME type it should be pretty straightforward.
*** Bug 322687 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 324937 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Is it still a problem ??? I have a good behavior of Nautilus with the current trunk version (or am I just misunderstanding what is the requested feature ?).
Yes, I think this is working as intended now.