Have found this thread on MarkMail speaking of the exactly same problem with another point of view (extracting the 'Open with' dialog from the libnautilus to be usable elsewhere).
-- [MASTER] "Open With" dialog not user-friendly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/18995 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs