[ jEdit-devel ] [ jedit-Plugin Feature Requests-2869057 ] HelperLauncher: provide FSB and PV contex

Plugin Feature Requests item #2869057, was opened at 2009-09-28 10:44
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Status: Open
Priority: 7
Private: No
Submitted By: Alan Ezust (ezust)
>Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
>Summary: HelperLauncher: provide FSB and PV context menu item

Initial Comment:
ProjectViewer has its own set of helpers to launch for certain file types.
It adds a context menu to the PV dockable. 
It should add the same menu item to the File System Browser too.

What is that helperlauncher for anyway? It seems to be yet another mapping of file types to programs. Why do we need both? Can't we put that mapping in the core?


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>Comment By: Marcelo Vanzin (vanza)
Date: 2009-09-28 20:27

Message:
Well, once someone does it in HelperLauncher, I'll remove the code from
PV...

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Comment By: Alan Ezust (ezust)
Date: 2009-09-28 17:22

Message:
Marcelo, you just described the ideal solution.


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Comment By: Marcelo Vanzin (vanza)
Date: 2009-09-28 16:57

Message:
Ok, someone needs to make a decision. helperlauncher seems to be pretty
old. but the description mentions things that PV's version doesn't do.

In fact, I'd rather keep all this functionality in that separate plugin
and remove all the code in PV - since this is not really something
project-specific, and I actually never use that functionality in PV.

Then helperlauncher can provide both FSB and PV extensions.

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Comment By: Alan Ezust (ezust)
Date: 2009-09-28 13:00

Message:
Dale: yes, I meant the open with... context menu item.


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Comment By: Dale Anson (daleanson)
Date: 2009-09-28 12:21

Message:
Alan, are you asking about the "Open with..." menu item on the PV context
menu?  If so, I'd also like that added to FSB.  It would be great to be
able to open a zip or jar file in an external app to see the contents.

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Comment By: Alan Ezust (ezust)
Date: 2009-09-28 11:22

Message:
So one idea is to have PV use HelperLauncher for its mapping, so there is
only one mapping.
Another idea is to move HelperLauncher into core and have PV use that.
And another idea is to have PV offer the FSB context menu item directly.
I'm not sure which one is best.



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