Re: [New] Desktop Preferred Applications Specification

2009-07-09 Thread André Gillibert
Aaron J. Seigo ase...@kde.org écrivit: On Saturday 06 June 2009, PCMan wrote: Here is the full specification. http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Desktop_Preferred_Applications_Specification using the mimetype database with entries crafted for default applications is something i suggested 2-3 years

Re: [New] Desktop Preferred Applications Specification

2009-06-15 Thread André Gillibert
Aaron J. Seigo ase...@kde.org écrivit: On Saturday 06 June 2009, PCMan wrote: Here is the full specification. http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Desktop_Preferred_Applications_Specification using the mimetype database with entries crafted for default applications is something i suggested 2-3 years

Re: [New] Desktop Preferred Applications Specification

2009-06-13 Thread PCMan
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Brian J. Tarriconebj...@cornell.edu wrote: On 06/06/2009 10:52 PM, PCMan wrote: [...] Here is the full specification. http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Desktop_Preferred_Applications_Specification Aside from other objections raised, I see a problem with your terminal

Re: [New] Desktop Preferred Applications Specification

2009-06-09 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 13:52 +0800, PCMan wrote: Hi list, To solve the issue that every desktop environment has its own way to specify default web browser and terminal emulator, I wrote a new spec to create a cross-desktop mechanism for this. This spec works by extending existing XDG specs and

Re: [New] Desktop Preferred Applications Specification

2009-06-08 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Sonntag, den 07.06.2009, 16:28 +0100 schrieb Bastien Nocera: On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 14:00 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote: Am Sonntag, den 07.06.2009, 12:50 +0100 schrieb Bastien Nocera: On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 13:52 +0800, PCMan wrote: Hi list, To solve the issue that every desktop

Re: [New] Desktop Preferred Applications Specification

2009-06-08 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 02:24 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote: Am Sonntag, den 07.06.2009, 16:28 +0100 schrieb Bastien Nocera: snip Yes, but we'd still be missing metadata to tell us how to construct the commands to launch those mailers with attachments. Why not adopt Xfce's approach?

Re: [New] Desktop Preferred Applications Specification

2009-06-08 Thread Jannis Pohlmann
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:44:05 +0100 Bastien Nocera had...@hadess.net wrote: I only mentioned Thunar as an example, because it's usage of the fdo specs for the send to menu IMO is very clean and simple. You still haven't explained what Thunar does that nautilus-sendto (or nautilus) would

Re: [New] Desktop Preferred Applications Specification

2009-06-08 Thread Manu
Christoph Wickert wrote: Just drop a desktop file in /usr/share/Thunar/sendto and you are ready to go. I don't know a file manager that offers similar functionality and IMO this should be a standard feature across all desktops +1 IMHO, panel menus should follow the same sub-directory method

Re: [New] Desktop Preferred Applications Specification

2009-06-08 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday 08 June 2009, Manu wrote: Christoph Wickert wrote: Just drop a desktop file in /usr/share/Thunar/sendto and you are ready to go. I don't know a file manager that offers similar functionality and IMO this should be a standard feature across all desktops +1 IMHO, panel menus

Send to spec (was: Re: [New] Desktop Preferred Applications Specification)

2009-06-08 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Dienstag, den 09.06.2009, 01:44 +0100 schrieb Bastien Nocera: On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 02:24 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote: Am Sonntag, den 07.06.2009, 16:28 +0100 schrieb Bastien Nocera: snip Yes, but we'd still be missing metadata to tell us how to construct the commands to launch

Re: [New] Desktop Preferred Applications Specification

2009-06-07 Thread PCMan
Currently there is no consensus on how to specify default programs, but many existing desktops are using the same way, the defaults.list. The proposed Desktop Preferred Applications Spec doesn't aimed to solve this problem, but it provides a cross-desktop way which can work with existing specs.

Re: [New] Desktop Preferred Applications Specification

2009-06-07 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 01:52:14PM +0800, PCMan wrote: Hi list, To solve the issue that every desktop environment has its own way to specify default web browser and terminal emulator, I wrote a new spec to create a cross-desktop mechanism for this. This spec works by extending existing XDG

Re: [New] Desktop Preferred Applications Specification

2009-06-07 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 13:52 +0800, PCMan wrote: Hi list, To solve the issue that every desktop environment has its own way to specify default web browser and terminal emulator, I wrote a new spec to create a cross-desktop mechanism for this. This spec works by extending existing XDG specs and

Re: [New] Desktop Preferred Applications Specification

2009-06-07 Thread Christoph Wickert
Am Sonntag, den 07.06.2009, 12:50 +0100 schrieb Bastien Nocera: On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 13:52 +0800, PCMan wrote: Hi list, To solve the issue that every desktop environment has its own way to specify default web browser and terminal emulator, I wrote a new spec to create a cross-desktop

Re: [New] Desktop Preferred Applications Specification

2009-06-07 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 14:00 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote: Am Sonntag, den 07.06.2009, 12:50 +0100 schrieb Bastien Nocera: On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 13:52 +0800, PCMan wrote: Hi list, To solve the issue that every desktop environment has its own way to specify default web browser and

Re: [New] Desktop Preferred Applications Specification

2009-06-07 Thread François Revol
Hi list, To solve the issue that every desktop environment has its own way to specify default web browser and terminal emulator, I wrote a new spec to create a cross-desktop mechanism for this. This spec works by extending existing XDG specs and only requires minimal changes to existing

[New] Desktop Preferred Applications Specification

2009-06-06 Thread PCMan
Hi list, To solve the issue that every desktop environment has its own way to specify default web browser and terminal emulator, I wrote a new spec to create a cross-desktop mechanism for this. This spec works by extending existing XDG specs and only requires minimal changes to existing systems