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

Daniel Sabsay danielsabsay at pacbell.net
Tue Aug 14 18:45:58 PDT 2007


Have you looked into RCDefaultApp ?

-- Daniel Sabsay
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We took the knowledge of fire, and used it to teach sand how to think.

On Aug 14, 2007, at 6:04 PM, Scot Hacker wrote:
>
> On Aug 14, 2007, at 4:49 PM, Scott Stevenson wrote:
>>
>> On Aug 14, 2007, at 2:44 PM, Jason Slack wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>
>
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