[Tango-artists] A little help, please

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

On Nov 13, 2006, at 1:51 PM, Matt Chaput wrote:
>
>> I imagine this dialog is for configuring which applications load what
>> MIME types by default, rather than for configuring which types are
>> present. In that regard, I might think of renaming the dialog to
>> something more useful, perhaps "File Associations" or something 
>> similar, and try to design a metaphor around that, rather than trying 
>> to come up with a metaphor for the more abstract "MIME" thing. :)
> ...
> Apple gets around this problem by not having a central control panel 
> interface for setting file associations, but rather making a context 
> function of individual files ("Use this application to open all X 
> files" on a file of type X). The functionality probably makes more 
> sense to users when it's in the context of "how do I open *this* 
> file?"
> ...

Back when Mac OS did have a central control panel for it, it was called 
"File Mapping", and the icon was of a generic document with an arrow 
pointing to a generic application.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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