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).

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