On Friday, 23 de September de 2011 16:58:40 Иван Комиссаров wrote:
> Here i would like to discuss API of services that can be provided for mime
> types. The main use case i see is providing replacement for
> QDesktopServices::openUrl() method.

Why do you want to replace it? What's wrong with it? What are its shortcomings
that you want to fix?

> As i understood, Michael in qtaddonmimetype went a little bit beyond use
> case of providing an application for opening files and implemented API for
> different "services" - for example sending file to youtube and so on.

This sounds like you want to extend the functionality, not replace it.

> In my opinion we can provide 2 ways of searching service - by path to file
> and by mime type (which is determined using QMimeDatabase). We can use here
> native platform mappings from mime type to application and provide API for
> changing it too - for example register new application for opening files.


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