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? Something like: > X-XFCE-Commands= > X-XFCE-CommandsWithParameter=
Because that's overloading the desktop spec, and adding more stuff that shouldn't be there in the first place. > > > BTW: IMO we also need a "sendto"-spec similar to what Thunar already > > > does. Then nautilus-sendto would be obsolete anyway. > > > > What does Thunar do that would obsolete nautilus-sendto? > > Why is nautilus-sendto obsolete? Would, conditional. > I still see it being used in nautilus > 2.26.2. If it's obsoleted, what's it's successor? You said it would be obsolete. > 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 benefit from? > 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 You mean like Windows 95's shortcuts so you can right-click on a file and send to a floppy or the mail program? > and IMO this > should be a standard feature across all desktops - then you don't even > need a successor for nautilus-sendto. If it's anything like Windows 95, then it's still missing: - ability to compress the files (optionally, or forced if sending a directory) and - discovery of targets (either Bluetooth OBEX PUSH devices, UPNP shares, mail or IM contacts) Cheers _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
