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Re:Burying the URL by insky on Thursday May 01, 2014 @08:49AM (#7679394)
There is a problem here, in that the user might not know which app should handle $x.
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Re:Burying the URL by dredmorbius on Thursday May 01, 2014 @02:27PM (#7681734)
On most modern OSes, the OS will generally know. Though I find "app for document type" models largely broken.
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Re:Burying the URL by insky on Thursday May 01, 2014 @03:22PM (#7682125)
I interpreted the comment differently. I read that the human was to do the association more on a task base, rather than a file association.
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Re:Burying the URL by dredmorbius on Saturday May 03, 2014 @10:18AM (#7690861)
Fair point, though IME task-oriented apps tend to be more comprehensible than format-oriented ones.
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