Reinier Olislagers wrote:
Ok, this would mean the xdg-open tools don't allow context-sensitive
help... and end of discussion on that front as far as LCL application
help is concerned, I suppose.
Unless
a. I'm misinterpreting things
b. there are other APIs/standards that address this
Finally, quite probably not *all* desktops support this (saw your
"current" up there)... so a fallback mechanism would be needed if others
are supported, too.
I agree about the fallback, but the xdg stuff has been in most if not
all Linux distreaux for around five years (doesn't appear to be in
Solaris 10 which is 5+ years old now, don't have a newer version to
check). The important point is that the xdg command lines are
standardised, the implementations are platform-specific.
Given the above this wouldn't really matter anymore, would it?
The only relevance is that this- in my opinion at least- should be the
primary way that a program tries to locate subsidiary file viewers etc.
It's the unix answer to ShellOpenEx() (or whataver the Windows API's
function is).
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