On Friday 16 September 2011 09:22:49 Thiago Macieira wrote: > On Thursday, 15 de September de 2011 17.49.11, David Faure wrote: > > The most common case of "open this url in the associated application" > > being already covered in QDesktopServices (by calling platform-specific > > executables), I wonder if there is a use case in Qt for "give me all > > the applications associated with this mimetype"? > > Can I answer "no"? > > Listing all applications for a given MIME type is useful for the file > associations editor.
To be fair, it's also useful for file managers (RMB menu). > I see little use for a generic application, other than > allowing the user to choose a non-default application (like KDE's > Open/Save/Cancel dialog being extended with Open With). Right: and web browsers, then. > However, before we could list the applications for a MIME type, we need to > be able to list applications in the first place, launch them and maybe even > control them. This might be an interesting feature, but it is definitely > not something we should rush now. I completely agree. One step at a time. Wolf-Michael: is there a chance that if I implement shared-mime-info in qmime.git, this could be the code that goes into Qt, and qtaddonmimetype.git would be discarded? In that case I'll do that. But I definitely don't want to work on something that will be discarded because the other repo (qtaddonmimetype.git) "comes from nokia so it's the one that will go into Qt". -- David Faure, [email protected], http://www.davidfaure.fr Sponsored by Nokia to work on KDE, incl. Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org). _______________________________________________ Qt5-feedback mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt5-feedback
