On 06/16/10 02:32 AM, John Rice wrote:
Shawn,
I sent this out a while ago, but have not got any response, not sure if
it got lost in the general email switch over.
We'd like to support sensible behavior for the on disc format in the
desktop.
- Clicking on a p5p file in nautilus
We should add p5p as a new mime type to the desktop and have PM launch
with this file as a param. PM should then add the Publishers this
archive contains for the session and allow the user to browse/ search
the Publishers as they can do with any network Publisher.
I'm not sure yet what level of integration you'll be able to see for the
archive(s). For many reasons, the current design assumes that the
contents of the archive are not added to the system. While the API will
permit listing packages from the archive among other things, you won't
be able to mix package data from the archive with package data already
on the system.
I can't give you the details on this as I'm not at that point of
implementation yet and won't be for at least a few weeks.
p5p does not seem to be currently recognized by Nautilus, which is good
as it means its not in use on the current desktop. Googling for this
extension it does appear to be used by the audio production software
called Project 5 LE, but as this is Windows only we should be fine.
http://www.ehow.com/facts_5690676_file-extension-p5p_.html
Since a mime type doesn't benefit the CLI, I'll let your team add this
whenever support for these get added to the GUI.
- Mounting a usb drive with a p5p file on it
We should have PM autostart with the path to this p5p on the mounted
media and as above setup the Publishers in the archive.
To do this you need an autoopen file on the media with the path to the
archive (see http://library.gnome.org/devel/autostart-spec/#id2457067 ).
Who creates the autoopen file? Should this be an option when creating
the archive?
(7067: GUI to support update from removable media)
There could be more than one file on the media, and I think that
creating an autoopen file is out of scope for the pkg(5) tools as that
seems decidedly GNOME/KDE specific.
Cheers,
-Shawn
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