Marlin

Helpful handling of unknown mime types

Registered by Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff

On encountering an unknown mime type, the user should be presented a list of apps that can open it.

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Marlin already has that in "Open with" dialog. It should also spawn on encountering an unknown mimetype. --shnatsel

How about an "Open with other" option in the dialog, whereby a file chooser would let you select -any- binary/shell script/etc to associate the MIME-type to? - andres mendez

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