What, and that's the end of the discussion!?

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BTW, I instaled FruitMenu and no problems here.

Are you aware that you just replied to a thread that's been lying dead and buried for more than 2 years? It's the end of the discussion because everyone had said their piece on the topic. The original participants may or may not be interested in chiming in again... more likely, a slew of new people are going to reply to the first few posts, not noticing how old they are...

FWIW, I still use FruitMenu and my system is solid as an anvil.

Well, that's up to the original participants! Maybe some other people want to chime in now! :P

If you like this sort of thing, check out Mac Menus. It's got all the functionality of FruitMenu and more.

Well, yo know, I don't find FruitMenu all that great. What I really wanted to do is to change the contextual menus for each file type (well, for some specific ones). Particularly, the 'Open With' menu item. But all it seems to do is add a few items to all of them, and only at the top level of the contextual menu (not changing the 'Open With' submenu).

Maybe I just didn't delve deep enough into it.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll check it out and see if it does what I need :)

Grape

You already own the app you need. It's the Finder > File > Get Info Check it out.

I'm not sure this does the trick...

It only changes the default app for opening documents created by a particular app... for instance, it says 'Are you sure you want to change all your Preview documents to open with the appication "Preview"?'

What I'd like to be able to do is not only to change the default app for a particular file type (jpg, txt, gif, etc.), but also customise the 'Open With' menu for each file type so it looks less like http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/9703/picture4jc5.png (that is for .jpg) and more like a hand-picked list of apps I actually use for that type.

Yet to try Mac Menus, , , , .

The purpose behind "Open With" is not to give you a list of the apps you tend to use to open that type of file, but rather to give you a list of apps that can open that type of file.

That doesn't obviate the need or usefulness of an "Open with (from my custom list" kind of function, but I do like the way it works now and consider it to be the more useful implementation.