David Faure wrote: > On Wednesday 30 January 2008, Claes H wrote: > > Even if it is too early to standardize something like this, hopefully > > it can be used as input to the discussion, keeping in mind for future > > extensions... > Indeed. > > > perhaps some day we will see edit-defaults.list and view-defaults.list? > Well we still need a main "defaults" file (for the double-click action) so we > can't split it that way. > > So view/edit differenciation is more of an attribute of the mime-app > association. > Except that I can't really find a case where an app edits some mimetypes and > only views > other mimetypes,
Many programs are often able to read much more formats than they can save. Some of them may be even read-only (e. g. bitmap editor can import vector images). But I guess it's not exactly equal to what you was thinking about. There are applications, which can: - Only View. - Open, Edit, but cannot save as this MIME type. - Open, Edit and Save this MIME type. The last should be preferred for Edit > so for now I'd suggest just making it a per-app setting, i.e. > a new desktop file key like ActionType=edit or ActionType=view. Then > filemanagers can > split out the "edit" and the "view" associated applications into two groups. > (I didn't name the key just "Action" because we have "Actions" already) Something very similar (Desktop Action) is in: http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-0.9.4.html But it is not in version 1.0. I can also imagine: MimeType[edit]=text/plain It would directly require definition (and human readable strings) for "edit" somewhere. > Your idea about RMB/Execute is good - but it sounds like one that would be > built-into > the file manager rather than coming from desktop files, so I'm leaving this > one aside for now. > -- Best Regards / S pozdravem, Stanislav Brabec software developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s. r. o. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 966 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
