Some usability ideas for Ubuntu

[Peter Garrett]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 23:25:38 -0500
"Charles E \"Rick\" Taylor IV" <rick at rickandpatty.com> wrote:

> The preferred applications dialog is actually confusing for new users,
> since they expect "Preferred applications" to show, well, preferred
> applications for opening files.  If it's not there, they assume that the
> application can't be changed unless they get lucky and find the place to
> change things in Nautilus.

Agreed - in Breezy at least (I don't yet have Dapper as I'm on dialup for
at least the next month), you can use the "Properties" dialogue in the
Nautilus right-click menu to select your preferred apps. [ Properties -
Open With - (4th tab from left) ]

This is far from intuitive, unfortunately...

-- 
Peter Garrett