Autocorrect

Extract from a Skype conversation today between Ben and I discussing getting RC12 ready for the next RaspberryPi NOOBS release…

[11:43:11] Steve Revill: OK, so that was a false alarm. The problem will come after anyone
           runs CFSI (and even quits it) because from then on, JPEGs will go to it. Probably
           not ideal, to be honest. But that's how it's always been...
[11:43:33] Ben Avison: Yes, exactly
[11:44:05] Steve Revill: In which case, if 12.2 seems to work, then I'd say it's good to go. I
           can't think of anything more I want to do at this stage (aside from build the image
           and test it, of course!)
[11:44:34] Ben Avison: That's good, means I can have a stab at doing the BOOBS image as well
[11:44:41] Ben Avison: facepalm
[11:44:49] Ben Avison: stupid autocorrect
[11:45:05] Steve Revill: I want the BOOBS image.
[11:45:05] Ben Avison: I'm never going to stop being able to think of that now
[11:46:32] Steve Revill: Quality. :D

Please sir, can I have one too ? :-)

With Windows only every other version is any good. What is the policy with NOOBS?

Steve Revill: I want the BOOBS image.

Doable, Steve. :-)
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=boobs&um=1&tbm=isch&tbs=isz:l

because from then on, JPEGs will go to it. Probably not ideal, to be honest. But that’s how it’s always been…

How is this any different to how something like Windows works? Files are associated with an application, that application receives (or is loaded to receive) to file based upon its type.

The only difference that I can see is that the run action can be arbitrarily changed on the fly. Run !Zap, it will claim text files. And so on. As opposed to Windows that will just blindly assume the run action specified even if something else that is capable is loaded and is running – if you want that to work you need to use the half-assed broken-for-ages drag-but-not-to-the-iconbar way of loading the file.
Or ^O in the application itself…

There’s a danger here of getting on topic! :)

I’d argue that most systems tend to have images open in an image viewer application when you double-click them – if you want to edit them, then you specifically load them into an editor. ChangeFSI isn’t a (very good) image viewer so there’s an argument here that it shouldn’t claim any image filetypes (that cannot be viewed better with something else that’s included in the distro). But it’s just an idea, we’ve not actually made any changes here so RC12 will behave the same as everything before it; JPEGs will view nice and fast in SwiftJPEG unless/until you load CFSI.

Returning to the issue of the auto-correction, BOOBS would have been a perfectly usable acronym :)