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On Friday, September 16, 2011, David Faure <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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