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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). > > _______________________________________________ > Qt5-feedback mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt5-feedback >
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