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Bug 363063

Summary:	Make "edit" the default action for unrecognized file types
Product:	[ECD] Orion	Reporter:	Mark Macdonald <mamacdon>
Component:	Client	Assignee:	Project Inbox <orion.client-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	Mike_Wilson
Version:	0.3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Mark Macdonald

2011-11-07 11:34:16 EST

Orion 0.3 11/02

1. Go to the Navigator.
2. Create a new file with some unknown-to-Orion extension (foo.rb, foo.sh, foo.c, or whatever)
3. Click on the new file.
4. You'll get a blank page.

When Orion doesn't have an association for a filetype, it gives you a link to view the file instead of edit it. This is confusing. It would be better to have a limited set of types (PNG, GIF, JPG. etc) that we know how to view, and make everything else get a link to the default editor.

Or if we're worried about accidentally feeding a binary file to the editor, we could have an "edit/view?" prompt.

Comment 1 Mark Macdonald

2011-12-01 09:32:27 EST


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 357242 ***