A few questions I should not have to ask....

[Scot Hacker]

On Aug 14, 2007, at 4:49 PM, Scott Stevenson wrote:

>
> On Aug 14, 2007, at 2:44 PM, Jason Slack wrote:
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>> Yes, I can set that as a default, but i was hoping for a file  
>> someplace that said something like:
>>
>> .txt - TextMate, BBEdit,
>> .html - Firefox, Safari
>
> I don't believe there's anything like that.

IMHO, the fact that OS X *still* has no FileTypes preferences panel  
for controlling these kinds of associations, defining new file types,  
seeing and editing metadata associated with filetypes, etc. etc. is  
now the one glaring missing piece in OS X. BeOS  had this *nailed*.  
OS X has inherited and expanded on a lot of great ideas from BeOS,  
but for some reason still keeps this kind of control out of the  
user's hands.

It's a 3rd party opportunity, sure, but I still don't get why it's  
not baked into the OS.

./s