[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #11024: "Open with" context menu shows paths and duplicate entries
- From: "pulkomandy" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 07:28:22 -0000
#11024: "Open with" context menu shows paths and duplicate entries
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Reporter: waddlesplash | Owner: axeld
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: high | Milestone: R1/alpha5
Component: Applications/Tracker | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by pulkomandy):
It's hard to see wether there are actual duplicates in that list with the
truncated paths. If you have copies (or different versions) of the same
app installed, Tracker will list them all, which sounds like the right
behavior. This was already discussed some time ago, and the general
opinion is that this only annoys Haiku developers who have copies of all
system apps in their haiku generated/ dir.
I can't think of a better solution, since these are not strictly
duplicates. We can't hide them, because it's a valid use case to have
several different versions of an app installed in different places and
with the same executable name. (or maybe they are different apps with the
same name. how can we know?)
Showing the path is definitely a feature, since it should allow
differenciating the files. However, we could use a smarter truncation to
make this more useful.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/11024#comment:7>
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