Opened 2 months ago
Last modified 7 weeks ago
#19128 new bug
"open with" version column shows wrong information
| Reported by: | augiedoggie | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Unscheduled |
| Component: | Applications/Tracker | Version: | R1/Development |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Platform: | All |
Description
When right clicking a file and selecting the "Open with..." menu, the window that appears to let you select an application has a "version" column that appears to be showing the "short description" of the app instead.
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by , 2 months ago
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follow-up: 2 comment:1 by , 7 weeks ago
There is no such thing as "short description". The "short info" field is part of the "app version" field, and that's what Tracker displays. You can see that e.g. DiskProbe's short_info in the app_version resource just says "DiskProbe", so that's what Tracker displays.
comment:2 by , 7 weeks ago
Yes, I was looking at the apps using FileTypes which refers to that field as "Short description", so perhaps FileTypes needs a string change.
In any case, calling the column Version is incorrect/misleading. It should fetch the actual version of the app or the column should be renamed to something else.
comment:3 by , 7 weeks ago
I think the "short info" field should ideally contain the application version as the app wants to display it? The version number fields of major/minor/patch may not be how the app would prefer its version be displayed. I don't know that we should display those to the user here.
comment:4 by , 7 weeks ago
That's fine. I still think the column should be renamed to Info or something, and perhaps another column option added to display the BeOS style version.
comment:5 by , 7 weeks ago
+1 on renaming the attribute column. Since it's the contents of the "Short description" that would be a good candidate.
IMO the short description field would be misused when putting the version there, as there's a dedicated field for that. Other apps may use it to display information about the app. For example, LaunchBox does that right now and it might even be nice if may Deskbar did, too, when hovering over an icon. It could explain that "DiskProbe" is "A hex editor" etc. Though without the translations of it being solved, maybe not yet. Sorry for veering off-topic...
"Open with..." window