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It would be nice to be able to configure your own 'external objects' where I can bind eg. .rtf files to eg. Wordpad and thus be able to open an *.rtf file from the IDE's filesystem. This applies also to other objects, say *.doc, grafik objects, uml,...
Shall I just change the version info if i want to have this issue resolved in newer version of nb? 3.6 -> 4.1
No, version indicates when the issue was identified. Reassigning to core.