Back to the original topic, I've been having a hard time making a request. Reasons:
1. I'm not a Linux developer and will have very limited ability to do anything myself.
2. It's hard to figure out what functionality is associated with closed source packages. Thanks, lma for that link, but I'll still make mistakes.
3. These FiF bugs that bother me... some of them could be fixed by simply using third-party apps instead. I don't have any special affinity to the built-in apps EXCEPT that they automatically tie together. File Manager launches media player not (insert name of third party program). Would it be more productive to allow users to specify which default program is launched (assuming this is even possible) for a specific file type and just ditch the closed-source apps? Would that kill off a whole slew of problems?