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WIP COSMIC file manager
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Allow "open with" to select apps not associated with file type #226

Open jacobgkau opened 4 months ago

jacobgkau commented 4 months ago

I didn't see this as part of https://github.com/pop-os/cosmic-files/issues/111.

Currently, the "Open with" functionality only lists applications associated with a file type-- e.g. for a video, it only lists video players.

Sometimes, it can be useful to open a file in an application not associated with the file type. For example, in the case of a corrupted video file, one might want to open it with a hex editor to try and identify the type of corruption.

For that kind of use case, an "Other..." option that lists all apps on the system (or at least allows browsing to an executable directly, although that's not as nice) would be good to have.

drazil100 commented 1 month ago

I second this. Probably should be it's own issue if it isn't already but I couldn't open an image in Krita.

Having the option to choose whatever program I want would have solved this issue.

An additional nice-to-have feature would be to allow the user the option to supply their own terminal command in the Open With menu if they wish to do something more advanced.