Re: mime apps specification

2014-04-02 Thread Kevin Krammer
, if so desired. This is the result of a discussion with Ryan Lortie, Alex Larsson and myself, I'm sending it here for further comments before pushing it to the git repo. Great work guys! Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring

Re: volatile config data and XDG Base Directory spec

2014-02-24 Thread Kevin Krammer
limited knowlegde around Wayland even suggests, that the latter will be the only option there anyway. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: volatile config data and XDG Base Directory spec

2014-02-20 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Thursday, 2014-02-20, 08:57:34, Richard Hartmann wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Kevin Krammer kram...@kde.org wrote: Like the other variables there would be a specified default, so configure (or whatever) could peform the check and fall back to the default or a shell

Re: volatile config data and XDG Base Directory spec

2014-02-19 Thread Kevin Krammer
for everything. Cheers, Kevin [1] which would have the added benefit of being something that can be passed to a user local software build, e.g. configure --prefix $XDG_INSTALL_HOME -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description

Re: volatile config data and XDG Base Directory spec

2014-02-19 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Wednesday, 2014-02-19, 18:16:24, Richard Hartmann wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Kevin Krammer kram...@kde.org wrote: [1] which would have the added benefit of being something that can be passed to a user local software build, e.g. configure --prefix $XDG_INSTALL_HOME Just

Re: volatile config data and XDG Base Directory spec

2014-02-19 Thread Kevin Krammer
the same file for config and state instead of using a separete state file? If it where in a different file, even in the same location, then only the actual config file would be tracked by the VCS and the state files would not. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE

Re: More about intents: Several improvements to desktop files and caches

2014-01-06 Thread Kevin Krammer
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Re: More about intents: Several improvements to desktop files and caches

2014-01-06 Thread Kevin Krammer
if there are more than on) I expect a call to xdg.intents.Camera.TakePicture to be available. I don't want to have to start each camera provider to do runtime introspection. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description

Re: More about intents: Several improvements to desktop files and caches

2014-01-06 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Monday, 2014-01-06, 15:37:33, Jerome Leclanche wrote: On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Kevin Krammer kram...@kde.org wrote: On Monday, 2014-01-06, 01:25:58, Jerome Leclanche wrote: There's a lot TBD still. For example: Do we require apps implementing an intent to support every method

Re: More about intents: Several improvements to desktop files and caches

2014-01-06 Thread Kevin Krammer
Hi, On Monday, 2014-01-06, 13:24:28, Ryan Lortie wrote: hi, On Mon, Jan 6, 2014, at 10:31, Kevin Krammer wrote: Wouldn't it make more sense to be able to derive the object path from the name? This way an application which has multiple interfaces can implement them with different

Re: Binary name in the desktop file

2013-12-27 Thread Kevin Krammer
about it a bit more the name ExecNoArgs might be a bit confusing. The command line specified in it could very well have arguments, just no variables. Also, if present but empty, that could be treated as cannot be launched without file/urls. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg

Re: Binary name in the desktop file

2013-12-27 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Friday, 2013-12-27, 15:24:43, Jerome Leclanche wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Kevin Krammer kram...@kde.org wrote: On Thursday, 2013-12-26, 15:34:03, Jerome Leclanche wrote: I'm sorry, you're right. I should have been clearer. I need this functionality for intents, but I

Re: Binary name in the desktop file

2013-12-26 Thread Kevin Krammer
is a no-go IMHO. It would take years before software vendors could use the new format. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: open(1) removed from Debian? (was: 'open' instead of 'xdg-open' for usability?)

2013-12-26 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Tuesday, 2013-12-24, 17:06:08, Thomas Kluyver wrote: On 24 December 2013 16:37, Kevin Krammer kram...@kde.org wrote: Well, a quick check would have revealed that it is. Cross platform development always requires testing on the targetted platforms, one can not simply assume things

Re: Binary name in the desktop file

2013-12-26 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Thursday, 2013-12-26, 11:33:13, Jerome Leclanche wrote: On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Kevin Krammer kram...@kde.org wrote: On Thursday, 2013-12-26, 10:56:11, Jerome Leclanche wrote: I'd really like to be able to get the binary name from desktop files (eg a way to start without any

Re: Binary name in the desktop file

2013-12-26 Thread Kevin Krammer
an addtional key would make people who prefer hacks over proper solutions magically use proper solutions. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Binary name in the desktop file

2013-12-26 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Thursday, 2013-12-26, 21:18:43, Ma Xiaojun wrote: On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Kevin Krammer kram...@kde.org wrote: If wine cannot accept the prefix as a command line argument, then this should use a script that adjusts the environment accordingly before calling the binary. I

Re: Binary name in the desktop file

2013-12-26 Thread Kevin Krammer
the actual target command. In other words avoiding the problem to exist in the first place instead of trying to work around it. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: open(1) removed from Debian? (was: 'open' instead of 'xdg-open' for usability?)

2013-12-24 Thread Kevin Krammer
platform support or not. If they have no use or goal to support running their software on non OSX platforms, then they are unlikely to put efforts into it. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description

Re: open(1) removed from Debian? (was: 'open' instead of 'xdg-open' for usability?)

2013-12-24 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Tuesday, 2013-12-24, 16:26:27, Thomas Kluyver wrote: On 24 December 2013 15:06, Kevin Krammer kram...@kde.org wrote: BTW, I happen to know one breakage caused by Linux not having open(1) like OS X. https://github.com/swaroopch/byte_of_python/issues/8 Looks like

Re: Fwd: 'open' instead of 'xdg-open' for usability?

2013-12-18 Thread Kevin Krammer
should have all their accounts closed for some meditation period. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ xdg mailing

Re: The format of Shared MIME Database magic values

2013-12-16 Thread Kevin Krammer
need a pure C++ implementation without Qt then writing a new one is your only choice. Cheers, Kevin (see http://api.kde.org/4.0-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/kmimetype_8h_source. html - KUrl, KServiceType etc.) 2013/12/14 Kevin Krammer kram...@kde.org On Friday, 2013-12-13, 20

Re: The format of Shared MIME Database magic values

2013-12-16 Thread Kevin Krammer
. 2013/12/16 Kevin Krammer kram...@kde.org On Monday, 2013-12-16, 11:41:34, Alexander Kamyshnikov wrote: Hi Kevin. I'm glad to see KDE developer here because i'm KDE fan for many years :) But this KDE MIME-support code hardly depend from other KDE stuff, isn't it? I

Re: The format of Shared MIME Database magic values

2013-12-13 Thread Kevin Krammer
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Re: New handling for URI scheme handlers

2013-12-02 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Monday, 2013-12-02, 15:34:34, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 15:16 +0100, Kevin Krammer wrote: On Monday, 2013-12-02, 09:40:12, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le Lun 2 décembre 2013 00:59, David Faure a écrit : (same with any other content application that can handle HTTP urls

Re: open file in directory action

2013-04-22 Thread Kevin Krammer
/directory. You probably meant inode/directory, text/directory is the MIME typ for contact vCards :) Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Direct-opening a temporary file using the user's preferred application

2013-04-12 Thread Kevin Krammer
, you decide when to clear it. You could check file access times, store meta data or clear it on shutdown or next startup. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: about match value -- file /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml

2013-01-21 Thread Kevin Krammer
that any further access is likely to be answered from kernel I/O buffers? Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: about match value -- file /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml

2013-01-21 Thread Kevin Krammer
Leclanche wrote: .msi files (application/x-msi, subclass of application/x-ole-storage) do not have any content match. I get the feeling the issue might be deeper, eg. an overzealous thumbnailer. J. Leclanche On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Kevin Krammer kram...@kde.org wrote: On Saturday, 2013

Re: mplayer (Message sign� : )

2012-12-03 Thread Kevin Krammer
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Re: mplayer (Message sign� : )

2012-12-03 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Monday, 2012-12-03, Thomas Kluyver wrote: On 3 December 2012 10:08, Kevin Krammer kram...@kde.org wrote: What if tools in the program remember their configuration? Losing the parameter set for one tool would not make me cry, however, losing all of them would. How likely

Re: URL and application handling/registration standard

2012-10-02 Thread Kevin Krammer
on the actual program xdg-open delegates to. E.g. on KDE the KIO subsystem knows how to determine the MIME type of a resource and will look up the application associated with it. I would guess that this is also true for GNOME and their IO framework. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer

Re: Can *.desktop files be located in /usr/local/applications?

2012-06-30 Thread Kevin Krammer
. Not with default locations but of course one could have additional directories, e.g. one per group that needs differentiation, and add that directory to the XDG_DATA_DIRS variable for all users of those groups. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user

Re: Support for localized Exec entries, please

2012-04-21 Thread Kevin Krammer
specific markup, intended to be used for config files. Can you try without? Or running a wrapper script that does the URL substitution based on $LANG Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description

Re: Fwd: Convention Over Configuration: A Way Forward?

2012-01-09 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Sunday, 2012-01-08, you wrote: On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Kevin Krammer kevin.kram...@gmx.at wrote: How would that improve upon any of the holdback reasons you cited above? Is there any public statement of developers in the groups indifferent or uncertain that they would support

Re: Convention Over Configuration: A Way Forward?

2012-01-09 Thread Kevin Krammer
. Hence my original question on whether there is any evidence to the contrary. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Convention Over Configuration: A Way Forward?

2012-01-06 Thread Kevin Krammer
the proposed inconfigurability make the location more widely known? Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ xdg

Re: RFC: An app category for adult material?

2011-11-02 Thread Kevin Krammer
on the computer accessible by their offspring, or even do white listing based on actually checking whether something is appropriate. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: Showing a file in the file manager

2011-09-22 Thread Kevin Krammer
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Re: Showing a file in the file manager

2011-09-22 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Thursday, 2011-09-22, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 15:09 +0200, Kevin Krammer wrote: On Thursday, 2011-09-22, Jannis Pohlmann wrote: IMHO that's a bad idea. Bypassing DE-specific checks and forwarding straight to the FileManager1 service means that, on a multi-user

Re: Showing a file in the file manager

2011-05-20 Thread Kevin Krammer
what would happen if you passed a file URI to the ShowDirectory method or the other way around, probably requiring specifying D-Bus errors. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: Showing a file in the file manager

2011-05-20 Thread Kevin Krammer
standardzed interfaces could be provided. Unfortunately this never happened for various reasons, so any move into that direction is highly appreciated. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description

Re: Showing a file in the file manager

2011-05-20 Thread Kevin Krammer
interface for D-Bus using workspace providers would just serve as a similar native API shared between them and reduce the code paths in or separate implementations of command line helpers. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring

Re: Showing a file in the file manager

2011-05-20 Thread Kevin Krammer
activation will have to be provided. For example by performing a query for preferred service similar to what xdg- mime can do and then launching that explicitly or by asking a central broker like service to launch the preferred service for a given interface. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE

Re: Showing a file in the file manager

2011-05-20 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Friday, 2011-05-20, Stef Bon wrote: 2011/5/20 Kevin Krammer kevin.kram...@gmx.at: For interfaces that many applications could provide and which might differ on a per-user basis due to personal preferences, an alternative mechanism to D- Bus activation will have to be provided

Re: XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP (was: Adding Unity to OnlyShowIn allowed values)

2011-03-05 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Saturday, 2011-03-05, Ted Gould wrote: On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 18:37 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 10:25 -0600, Ted Gould wrote: I haven't seen any objection, just questions to this. Final call? I have voiced my objection to the general idea of 'desktop switch'

Re: [RFC] XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

2010-11-09 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Tuesday, 2010-11-09, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Sun, 07.11.10 11:26, Ryan Lortie (de...@desrt.ca) wrote: What if the system resumes from suspend after 12 hours and the OS job to clean the directory is executed before any of the apps had a chance to update mtime? Good point. We

Re: [RFC] XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

2010-11-07 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Saturday, 2010-11-06, Lennart Poettering wrote: Heya, Ryan Lortie and I have been sitting down here at the GNOME Summit and have discussed an older proposal that was posted on the XDG ML by Ryan a while back, regarding definition of a directory where user applications can store runtime

Re: Trash specification

2010-10-11 Thread Kevin Krammer
Hi, not sure why this showed up today, maybe it hang in some queue. On Monday, 2010-06-21, Wei Jiang wrote: Hi All, The Trash specification is very good. It is intent for Unix, but it is good for Windows as well, with minor modification. I have implemented it for a cross platform (Unix

Re: Trash specification

2010-10-11 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Monday, 2010-10-11, François Revol wrote: (sorry Mail.app is too stupid to handle digests as separate mails) De : Wei Jiang _weijia...@yahoo.com Date : 21 juin 2010 13:49:55 HAEC Aw, that's old :) À : xdg@lists.freedesktop.org Objet : Trash specification Hi All, The

Re: [mpris] [ANN] MPRIS v2.0

2010-08-12 Thread Kevin Krammer
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Re: base dir spec question.

2010-05-06 Thread Kevin Krammer
themselves, I'd say it qualifies as application data. If the information is also stored in the media files themselves, thus can be recovered and is only put in the DB for convenience and faster access, in which case I think XDG_CACHE_HOME would be more appropriate Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer

Re: Desktop Entry Specification - ExecuteAs proposition

2010-03-07 Thread Kevin Krammer
without bothering to check whether the current user has enough priviledges aready, e.g. by group membership. -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: basedir spec

2009-12-26 Thread Kevin Krammer
that all distributions are using the base dir spec as intended. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ xdg mailing

Re: Fwd: Actions extensions in File Manager

2009-11-27 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Friday, 2009-11-27, Ted Gould wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 14:30 +0100, Pierre Wieser wrote: However, these two threads refer to a 'Desktop Action' which was present in current 0.9.4 spec, but has disappeared from latest 1.1. Does this mean the 'Desktop Action' entry has been obsoleted

Re: Fwd: Actions extensions in File Manager

2009-11-26 Thread Kevin Krammer
Not sure whether this kind of action handling is deprecated or an orthogonal concept but it might make sense to at least have a look it :) Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: Desktop usability issues: some comments from the country of bears, vodka and ISO8859-5

2009-09-03 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Thursday, 2009-09-03, Aceler wrote: John Tapsell johnflux at gmail.com wrote at Tue Sep 1 07:00:55 PDT 2009: Another issue - stealing focus. In X Window, every app that requests focus, gets it. I think KWin disables focus stealing by default. Either way, you can turn it on

Re: Proposed draft for the thumbnail D-Bus specification

2008-09-13 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Tuesday 09 September 2008, Philip Van Hoof wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 13:08 +0200, Kevin Krammer wrote: I'm fine with adding amendments that state that cancels might be available, but don't have to be available. IF it's clear that it's a *might be available* not a *will be available

Re: Proposed draft for the thumbnail D-Bus specification

2008-09-09 Thread Kevin Krammer
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Re: Specifying thumbnailers as a service

2008-08-29 Thread Kevin Krammer
all requested ones have been completed. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ xdg mailing list xdg

Re: [TextShare] - proposal to make a desktop-wide format for text

2008-06-20 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Friday 20 June 2008, Liam R E Quin wrote: On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 22:21 +0200, Kevin Krammer wrote: [...] I have to admit that I might have misunderstood the purpose of the thread, since some other comments indicate that other people understand it as looking for solutions regarding

Re: [TextShare] - proposal to make a desktop-wide format for text

2008-06-19 Thread Kevin Krammer
it as looking for solutions regarding simple formatting, not HTML or word processor like separation of structure and style. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [TextShare] - proposal to make a desktop-wide format for text

2008-06-18 Thread Kevin Krammer
the source should advertise formats, or if targets should check the formats in a specific order, etc. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Commit notifications for specs

2008-05-01 Thread Kevin Krammer
and a potential migration path, so it is a good start at sharing VFS implementations. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Commit notifications for specs

2008-05-01 Thread Kevin Krammer
advanced enough software stack is capable of doing that, but as I said I don't know the details of GIO, however since on the KIO side no such restriction exists, I would be quite puzzled if the GIO protocol would. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user

Re: MPRIS 1.0

2008-05-01 Thread Kevin Krammer
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Re: Commit notifications for specs

2008-05-01 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 15:21 +0200, Kevin Krammer wrote: On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 19:06 +0200, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: by the way: GIO implements various fd.o specifications

Re: fuse desktop integration / management library

2007-04-24 Thread Kevin Krammer
the desktop layer... The problem of using local file access from GUI applications is that there needs to be mechanisms to ensure they can list directories and read/write files without blocking. They need to have a way to discover that a file is actually a remote resource. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin

Re: org.freedesktop.PowerManagement

2007-03-22 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Thursday 22 March 2007 06:55 +0100, Thiago Macieira wrote: Kevin Krammer wrote: Yes, a dictionary might be nice, but it's not trivial to access in C. This stuff really needs to be *trivial* for an application to access, hence why I think booleans are probably best. How likely

Re: org.freedesktop.PowerManagement

2007-03-22 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 23:57 +0100, Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:05:34 +0100 Kevin Krammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: On Wednesday 21 March 2007 21:57 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 15:58 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: As an alternative

Re: org.freedesktop.PowerManagement

2007-03-21 Thread Kevin Krammer
], Access = AtConsole } Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring pgpDCdUE0zhkQ.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http

Re: org.freedesktop.PowerManagement

2007-03-21 Thread Kevin Krammer
that these bindings support dictionaries) Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring pgpa2prDnAJcO.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http

Re: well-known user folders, a proposal

2007-02-22 Thread Kevin Krammer
a remote host, where the remote host is having a broken/incomplete implementation of CIFS (usually a Windows system) and can'tdo symlinks. Sure, it is just a small percentage, but if one can avoid it, maybe one should. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user

Re: MPRIS Media player Remote Interfacing Specification

2007-02-12 Thread Kevin Krammer
capability maps to one of the methods, you could have the method name (maybe including interface name) as the capability identifier, thus not needing to agree on a hardcoded mapping of other identifiers to available methods. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE

Re: Announcing Wasabi - Unifying Desktop Search - feedback needed

2007-02-08 Thread Kevin Krammer
connection name where the interfaces are likely to be found. Otherwise a potential search client has to introspect all D-Bus names and all object paths on each of them. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring pgpnRtq7x0mZM.pgp

Re: Announcing Wasabi - Unifying Desktop Search - feedback needed

2007-02-08 Thread Kevin Krammer
compatability. However, I am not sure what the official D-Bus take on this subject is. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring pgpTsOdkI0u1W.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ xdg mailing

Re: Recommendation for $HOME

2006-12-07 Thread Kevin Krammer
visible ~/Mail directory resulted in several distributors pacthing KMail to move it elsewhere. Maybe $XDG_DATA_HOME/Mail, which usually will be ~/.local/Mail Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring pgps1AT3Y30Fy.pgp Description

Re: simple search api (was Re: mimetype standardisation by testsets)

2006-11-27 Thread Kevin Krammer
signal. The object path will be the reference Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring pgpdbaXcBzn5T.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http

Re: Hello + sound event architecture

2006-11-12 Thread Kevin Krammer
, do the sounds playing directly instead of further delegating it. I'd recommend concentrating on the sound theme specification. Just like the icon theme spec it will already be useful without a shared loading/caching/displaying/playing implementation. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE

xdg-terminal: launching the preferred terminal emulator

2006-10-26 Thread Kevin Krammer
-terminal.in source Current version attached Only tested on KDE so far, using default setting and xterm as an override setting. Follow-ups preferably to the Portland list, thanks. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring xdg-terminal

Re: a standard for the user's default terminal

2006-10-23 Thread Kevin Krammer
to admit I didn't think about non-DE filemanagers. Maybe, as a intermediate solution, start whatever $TERM points to if it is set and/or offer a setting for the preferred terminal. Users wanting a terminal should be able to configure this. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer KDE user

Re: a standard File Manager API

2006-10-23 Thread Kevin Krammer
integration goals. I did a wrapper script for native file dialogs, but I think the embedding is moved to the second integration stage (when we have a service API) Of course applications still have to use it, user's requesting this might be helpful ;) Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg

Re: more about the standard File Manager API

2006-10-23 Thread Kevin Krammer
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Re: a standard for the user's default terminal

2006-10-23 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Monday 23 October 2006 14:18, Hongli Lai wrote: Kevin Krammer wrote: Valid use case, I have to admit I didn't think about non-DE filemanagers. Maybe, as a intermediate solution, start whatever $TERM points to if it is set and/or offer a setting for the preferred terminal. Users wanting

Re: a standard for the user's default terminal

2006-10-23 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Monday 23 October 2006 14:27, Kevin Krammer wrote: On Monday 23 October 2006 14:18, Hongli Lai wrote: Kevin Krammer wrote: Valid use case, I have to admit I didn't think about non-DE filemanagers. Maybe, as a intermediate solution, start whatever $TERM points to if it is set

Re: a standard for the user's default terminal

2006-10-23 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Monday 23 October 2006 20:46, Jaap Karssenberg wrote: Kevin Krammer wrote: ... 8 ... If somebody can find a way to GNOME and XFCE I'll write the xdg-utils wrapper script Looking at an RC for xfce 4.4 here. Xfce has a directory called share/xfce4/helpers/ which contains desktop entry

Re: a standard File Manager API

2006-10-22 Thread Kevin Krammer
for each aplication, but they they will never have the look and feel of the default file manager. I am afraid I don't understand. Are you talking about embedding the desktop's filemanager? If this is about file dialogs, we are working on that. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils

Re: a standard for the user's default terminal

2006-10-22 Thread Kevin Krammer
a terminal or work within any terminal the applications chooses to open. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring pgp03xPFSVz4n.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ xdg mailing list xdg

Re: Opening default filemanager (was: xdg Digest, Vol 31, Issue 10)

2006-10-17 Thread Kevin Krammer
calls the desktop environments commandline tool for launching the default handler application, it _does_ already use the desktop's assocation for inode/directory (at least kfmclient does for KDE, but I assume gnome-open and exo-open actually do the same) Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE

Re: Icon / mime association..

2006-10-16 Thread Kevin Krammer
current work, we'd like to merge it into our documentation. If you're interested you can just send me plain text and I'll get it into the docbook Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring pgpYAIwAmbOdm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Portland] Re: First xdg-utils beta release

2006-07-08 Thread Kevin Krammer
it is their recommended way In the meanwhile, however, the script can allow at least basic screensaver control across different versions of multiple desktops environments. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtcentre.org

Re: (no subject)

2006-04-14 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Friday 14 April 2006 00:44, Rodney Dawes wrote: On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 21:07 +0200, Kevin Krammer wrote: In case you are referring to xdg-mime from the xdg-utils package, it does whatever the running desktop's utility does :) I am referring to that, yes. But what does it do, if one

Re: xdg-mime (Was: (no subject))

2006-04-14 Thread Kevin Krammer
required by those environments. I think I can manage the KDE3 part, but it would be of great help if at least one GNOME developer would also participate in Portland Project activities. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German

Re: (no subject)

2006-04-13 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Thursday 13 April 2006 08:06, nupul kukreja wrote: I went through the freedesktop specs on MIME. I'd like to know if there is any way by which I can query the database to know which application is to be used for a specific MIME type? I did check out the current Implementors section and

Re: (no subject)

2006-04-13 Thread Kevin Krammer
/applications - in mimeinfo.cache search for your mime-type Not sure this is used in KDE3. KDE will change to the shared mime info database for KDE4. So it depends if this file is one of this spec Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User Moderator

Re: Menu-spec update

2006-03-22 Thread Kevin Krammer
into the default prefix /usr/local without being root. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtcentre.org pgpCIdqraRKCu.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ xdg mailing list xdg

Re: autostart spec changes

2006-03-01 Thread Kevin Krammer
this be used for all keys? Yes, whole files, groups and keys. http://webcvs.kde.org/kdelibs/kdecore/README.kiosk?view=markup Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtcentre.org pgpiB4nj0ELuU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Request for clarification on menu/file spec

2006-02-08 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 11:09, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: On Debian we have desktop-profiles [1] which runs an Xsession.d script that manages the contents of the XDG_*_DIRS variables (and similar variables such as KDEDIRS, or CHOICESPATH). When setting the variables it parses

Re: Request for clarification on menu/file spec

2006-02-08 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 11:56, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: On Wednesday 08 February 2006 11:32, Kevin Krammer wrote: On Wednesday 08 February 2006 11:09, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: On Debian we have desktop-profiles [1] which runs an Xsession.d script that manages

Re: Request for clarification on menu/file spec

2006-02-07 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 18:31, Thiago Macieira wrote: Jeremy White wrote:  The whole problem is when you say 'try $XDG_DATA_DIRS', what exactly does that mean?  I'm trying to write a single .desktop file; do I write it to every directory listed in $XDG_DATA_DIRS?  Do I write it just to

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