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  1. Bug #18995
  2. Comment #51

Comment 51 for bug 18995

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dotancohen (dotancohen) wrote : Re: [MASTER] "Open With" dialog not user-friendly

> But this is a straw man; if you want to argue
> about a different bug, please don't do that here.

I was giving an example of inconsistent decisions. I really do not care about that other bug.

> If there is no cross-linux desktop API, then perhaps we can cheat
> and detect the desktop environment with the extension, or perhaps,
> make it configurable in the addon configuration window.

There is, xdg-open is made just for this.

> I have a question, with xdg-open, it opens the file with the default system app. But, if
> we want to open it with another app, is it possible to display the Gnome UI "Open With" ?

That is bug #232046:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/232046
It was marked as a dupe of this bug.