"Extension Buddy" for Fedora 9?

[Andrew Parker]

On Nov 12, 2007 10:36 AM, Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 13:35 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > Would be nice if a user tried to open a file that didn't have an
> > > application associated with it and up popped a list of applications
> > > that could be installed.  Would be even cooler if the you could select
> > > one to install, it installed, then opened it up for you.
> >
> > It would be cool if we could autoextract mime handling information from
> > desktop files installed in /usr/share/applications and generate
> > "mime(application/pdf)" style rpm provides.
>
> If we did this then we could have the nautilus "open with other
> application" dialog use yum to query for other apps that can open the
> file type. In combination with PackageKit to (optionally) let users
> install packages this could be pretty sweet!

not only that, but it would negate one of my problems with the lack of
an install everything option - that I don't know what apps can open a
file unless i've installed it

/me hoping that i haven't started that topic up again...