492104 - Freedesktop specification for a list of available application under linux

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 397700

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Sylvain Paré]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042523 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042523 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.10

Firefox should show a list of available application when opening a new type of file instead of only letting the user looking for the place of an apps.

When you click on "open with" firefox should list available applications using freedesktop specification instead of letting the (newbie or power)user looking for the right folder containing the binary. Under any windows environment when you click on a file that the environment does not know which application it need to be launched with, it shows the user a list of all the different application installed on the computer. WHy does firefow under linux does not provide this kind of thing? Plus it is trivial to list all available application by using freedesktop specification.
Personally it is a pan in the ass but as I deal quit well with my linux system it is ok. But for newbies coming to the opensource/linux world, it is completely destabilizing.
Thanks

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.while opening a type of file without prefered application to open with