[Tracker] the Open with... context menu option is displaying the full path to recommended apps

[dcatt]

I initially discovered this with hrev51727 but figured I'd wait for a newer release and I finally updated to hrev51791 today and the issue still persists.

See the attached screenshot for more details!

[diver]

Tracker does it if you have more than one app with the same name so you can distinguish between them. In your case it's Gobe Productive.

[dcatt]

Maybe a slightly better implementation to distinguish them to make it less noisy in the UI would be better?

[diver]

I agree that the current implementation is not optimal. Maybe having a submenu for such apps with the same name would be better? Something like this:

Open With...-> BeZilla
               NetSurf
               Otter
               QupZilla
               WebPositive -> /system/apps/WebPositive
                              /sources/haiku/generated/../../WebPositive

This way top level menu won't get truncated and would stay less noisy and compact.

See BContainerWindow::SetupOpenWithMenu

​https://git.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/src/kits/tracker/ContainerWindow.cpp#n2355

[dcatt]

diver,

Sounds awesome to me if it's doable without a lot of fuss. I wonder what BeOS did in this case? I guess I could see that for myself, I have BeOS Personal running in VirtualBox by the way of ReactOS :-)

[jscipione]

Fixed in hrev56294, for the most part.