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changing order of entries in internal assoc.'s context menu

Posted: 2009-04-20, 11:50 UTC
by StickyNomad
If I internally associate 2 or more programs with a certain filetype, I can open a context menu containing those programs when specifying '*' as the 'open'-action.

I'd like to suggest a way to change the order of these context menu entries, e.g. by supporting drag'n'drop in the 'edit'-page of the internal associations-dialog.

Alternatively, up-/down arrows could be provided to move an entry, like it works in the custom columns-config dialog. This last way would require some space, but it would be more obvious to the user that he can move entries.

EDIT: The specified order should also be used in the regular right-click context menu of course.

I know that I can manually edit the INI-file to change the order, or delete and recreate entries, but that's a bit cumbersome.

So if it's no big effort to add this, It would be comfortable little addition IMO.

Posted: 2009-04-20, 14:32 UTC
by ghisler(Author)
This is indeed planned. One problem is the default "Open" command, because it's not inside the listbox...

Posted: 2009-04-20, 23:35 UTC
by petermad
I hope you find a solution - It would really be a welcomed feature.

Posted: 2009-04-21, 12:26 UTC
by StickyNomad
2ghisler(Author)

Hm, just a quick and rough thought:
Maybe the default 'open'-entry could be shown always at the top of the menu, because it is ...well... the default action. If nobody has a better idea, i could easily live with that solution. Being able to change the order of the 'non-default'-entries would suffice for me personally.

Another way would be to provide a possibility to move the default action into the lower list of actions and vice versa, but that could be a bit too much I think...