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Currently, when I mount a file system that contains files with an unrecognized extension, if I double click on the file, nothing happens. Instead, when I double click on an unknown file type, I would like it to ask me what to do. For instance, it could ask if I want to treat it as a text file, or if I would like to treat it in the same way as file of a known extension. When it asks, there should be a check box to say whether or not it should remember. Later I can change this with the global options, if I want different behavior. This is a lot like the behavior in the Windows explorer, or course.
Hard to solve, but will be considered during rewrite of DefaultDataObject.
You can already right-click on the object and treat that (individual) object as a text file thereafter.
(Taken from 7097 by stevef@forte.com) Would be more helpful if a message popped up suggesting how to proceed. When I encountered this, tool/convert to text is what I wanted to do. File was a gnu makefile and so had no extension.
The text module should modify default action (the first action) of default loader (the last loader in pool) to be Convert To Text.
also see bug 7200
[main trunk] Fixed in main trunk, waiting for approval to fix in boston branch; According Jarda's suggestion (see add comments), the text module ("owner of convert to text action") sets the ConvertToText action as default one for DefaultDataObjects (ths is set for their loader) during installation of text module. It removes that action during uninstallation. This should allow much more convenient handling with DefaultData Objects.
[boston] see previous comment.
Resolved for 3.3.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.