Ok. Thank you very much. I'll send you the result when I'm ready :-) <div>On 11/14/06, Matthew Paul Thomas <<a href="mailto:mpt@myrealbox.com">mpt@myrealbox.com </a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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. Cheers -- Matthew Paul Thomas <a href="http://mpt.net.nz/">http://mpt.net.nz/</a> _______________________________________________ Tango-artists mailing list <a href="mailto:Tango-artists@lists.freedesktop.org">Tango-artists@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/tango-artists">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/tango-artists </a> </blockquote></div> -- --- Luchezer P. Petkov