Feature suggestion: action depending on "exec bit" set

"Zbigniew B." <[email protected]> Mon, 7 Feb 2011 16:48:08 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.desktop.rox.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hallo,

I would to suggest splitting the present "choose action" option into
two separate:
- action if file marked as executable
- action when it's not executable

Why my proposal? Writing some scripts I noticed, that it would be
convenient to have possibility to run scripts on mouseclick (and such
scripts are usually marked as executable) using appropriate shell for
chosen scripting language, while still keeping also convenient option
to edit with favourite editor "on mouseclick" the ones, that - for
example - weren't designed to be run as standalone toys, but are
"includes", or modules (and so on... readed by the former
"executables") - or just any others NOT created to be a "main module".

Of course, such possibility can be used for having more diversion in
"default action" with other file types, than scripts: e.g. one can
mark GIF-s as "executable" to edit them using GIMP on mouseclick -
while the others will be sent to viewer... and so on.

What do you think?

Z.

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