OSNews is Exploring the Future of Computing

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 13th Jul 2009 22:29 UTC, submitted by suka

Mark Shutttleworh, the head honcho over at Canonical and Ubuntu, has given an interview to derStandard.at during the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit. He talks about GNOME 3.0, the struggle to improve the user experience on the Linux desktop, as well as various other things.

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RE[7]: Why not fix it?

by BigDaddy on Wed 15th Jul 2009 04:40 UTC in reply to "RE[6]: Why not fix it?"

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This is where the "Always ask" option in Firefox comes in handy ... as it will popup a dialog asking you what to do with a download. Want to save it to disk? Check that box. Want to open it with an app? Select the app from the list.

Perhaps I did not make myself clear. I do not have a drop down list of applications, it just doesn't recognize the file format. Be it .torrent or .jpg.

That is not the distro fault as I installed firefox. Regardless of the reason, if I didn't know where the program itself was, I would be screwed.

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