Firefox and the `you have chosen to open ...' dialogue

[Matthew East]

On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 14:01 +0100, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> On vr, 2006-03-03 at 12:40 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> 
> > I'm still getting lots of gripes about this, mainly in bug reports and
> > mainly of the form `I don't like this'.  It's a shame that (with a few
> > notable exceptions) we've not had much of the way of clear and
> > reasoned argument, and not in the right venue either.
> 
> To add my 2¢: I think it's insecure to automatically launch programs. I
> like to live on the edge though and after a while I got quite fond of
> this behaviour. Bug 32934 should be taken care of though. 

Two more cents: the problem with the old dialogue wasn't that it was a
dialogue, but that in order to select a program to open the file, you
had to choose the program on the filesystem in order to choose it (i.e.
navigate to /usr/share/bin or whatever). From a usability perspective,
the dialogue would be improved several thousand percent if, instead of
that, it popped up the gnome program selector which you get when trying
to open a file in gnome.

> > I don't have a strong view about this issue and given the level of
> > pushback I think the right thing to do is some kind of user survey.
> > Do we have any mechanism for holding a poll of some kind ?
> 
> The Fridge has a poll taking thing.

I'd recommend the forum.

Matt
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