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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Member since:2009-03-19
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.
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.
If I remember correctly firefox on Linux uses GVFS to determine filetype and suitable programs to open said filetype. If you're not running gnome and don't have gvfs installed separately Firefox will probably not be able to make filetype associations.
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2006-08-10
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.