On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 12:57 PM, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 06:43:04PM -0800, anoa wrote: >> In terms of concept, I have already started thinking about how to >> implement this, however I would like to clarify one thing first before >> presenting a design as the issue description doesn't really make this >> too clear. >> >> Are we implementing MIME-handling to open a specific file/type in >> DisposableVMs only, or should the user be able to choose/enter any one >> of their installed VMs? As a Qubes user I would like the ability to open >> all PDFs in, say, my work AppVM, rather than only being able to only set >> global rules for files to open in Disposable VMs. > > Technically it's indeed very similar, but in practice it doesn't make > much sense - if you want to open some file always in the same > non-disposable VM, simply keep the file there. > > IMO much more important (and not so easy) part is to keep information > which files should be opened where. For example flag files downloaded > from the internet to open in Disposable VMs (even when moved out of > "Downloads" directory), but files converted using qvm-convert-pdf open > locally.
There are standardized extended filesystem attributes [1] which are widely adopted now, and should be a good starting point for implementing this. [1]: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/CommonExtendedAttributes/ Example: $ getfattr -d genode-foundations-16-05.pdf # file: genode-foundations-16-05.pdf user.xdg.origin.url="https://genode.org/documentation/genode-foundations-16-05.pdf"; -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/CABQWM_DdhHd2C1LrMfV8Qr3d_7ra%3DgVywzRZEnZt7Ese_BVSNQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
