What are "APPS"

[diamonddrake]

the view menu lets you manage APPS and choose an executable. But I can't seem to figure out what you do with that afterward. How do you use this feature?

[Wolf]

Same here. Will there be a widget in the future that will launch an instance of an app?

[1kko]

I poked around and I found what it does.
After adding a App using "Manage App", and you can add a File Opener, and specify a file to be opened with App.

For instance, if you want to open a text file with different editor you can specify your text editor as an App, then Add a "File Opener" widget using the text editor you specified.

[tryskacz]

Exactly as @1kko wrote, you can define list of apps, or to be precise, paths to executable files of your apps, and then you can choose from that list in File Opener widget configuration. It overrules system default apps.

Example: If you have text file *.txt, Windows default app for txt is notepad.exe... lets say, you want to open notepad when you click that file outside Freeter, but you want to open VS Code, when you open it through Freeter - so you add VS Code (path to exe) to Freeter, and in File Opener widget config, you choose VS Code in last section "Open files in"... Or you can play with windows default apps for filetypes you want to open, so whenever you open it, via Freeter or not, you always have your app...

Not good example, but i hope you understand. There are more scenarios where it is actually usefull f.e. you work on webdesing, and you want to check your desing in all web browsers you have installed - you add all your broswers to Freeter and same amount of File Openers, every one with different "Open files in"

I am very sorry if I overexplained it too much, thats my disability from working on help-line when there was no remote desktop

[tryskacz]

@Wolf little workaround with actual state of Freeter: use File Opener and point it to exe of your app even when you choose icon of that app from desktop, it will automaticaly get the exe path.

But it will stay as file icon. It would be nice to config icons and stuff, but i believe it will come one day

[alex]

@1kko @tryskacz Thanks for the explanation and examples!