majkinetor ! wrote:Maybe solid needs this sentence explained:
Operating System serves many purposes like providing unique API for programming, User Interfaces, and among many other things, one of its main purposes is to provide common places that all applications can use/change. Nobody said that MS did the best job trying to reach OS goals, but as any low is better then no low application programers should stick to rules MS declared.
I agree with the above, but what my meaning was that in a way i perform my everyday work, I hardly need, if at all, "Open with..." dialog box anywhere outside of TC and here is where CE comes. Simply there is no place, from where i call this box (even no use right click, and then open with...)
Choice editor does better job for me than "Open with". At least its speed is uncompareable. And I always prefer faster, lighter or better solutions for many tasks than built in windows features. At the end we are all here because we use TC and not explorer.
IF that was true, you would have your Bookmarks on one place (Favorites dir) and every browser would use this place, and you could forget about Bookmark Export/Import programs. The same is true for Open With and many other.AFAIK Linux is much better in making programers stick to the standards it provided.
Bookmarks, address book, caching and many other modules needs universal access, so any app that needs them, can use them. I remeber back in old days how this issue was solved on Amiga OS. There was filetypes, datatypes and other modules that were os level based, and improving this system modules, makes improvement on all applications. So with time some application expanded their possibilities only by expanding OS possibilities, not with change in application (like plugins for OS, which all apps can use them)
For example, if a datatype for some new image format was added to the system, all application can open this format, no need for newer version or update for each application.
Well, we got quite offtopic here...