On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:45 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Erik Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perhaps we could also investigate the use of the xdg utilities for > > managing mimetype associations and installing activities? > > Good point. I've talked with sugar folk about this some already. My > Journal2 code is going to use the GIO app launching mechanism, which > is based on XDG, and sugar already uses XDG mechanisms to register > mime types. Michael's already been thinking about how we can > interpose rainbow-launch into app launching, which is not inconsistent > with the XDG mechanisms. I think we've been a bit unsatisfied with > how XDG scatters information about activities across the filesystem > (mime types here, .desktop files there, etc); Sugar prefers the "all > information related to an activity in a single directory" model, > pioneered by NextSTEP and used in Mac OS X, etc. I think that can be > made consistent with the XDG mechanisms, either by using a very long > XDG_DATA_DIR spec which lists all the activity directories, or by > using a userland filesystem to generate the proper XDG directory > contents based on the activity registry. I should flesh this out and > we'll deal with the details during the presentation. > The way it's done right now is to copy mime information to ~/.local at installation time. Marco
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