On Sunday 16 August 2009, Eugene Gorodinsky wrote: > As it currently stands nautilus has one way of adding an entry to the > right-click menu and konqueror has another (and I'm not sure about > other file managers). I believe it would be very beneficial for > everyone to have some standard way of accessing the menu (e.g. adding, > modifying or deleting an entry). Thus an application could add itself > to the file manager's context menu without worrying what filemanager > the user is using.
Are you talking about Open With... or (what is in kde called) Actions / ...? The first one is almost-standardized already, since it comes from the app-mime associations (except that from what I heard gnome sorts alphabetically while kde sorts by user preference). The second one is indeed not standardized yet. KDE uses the previously-standardized (and removed from the spec, but should be re-added IMHO) support for actions defined in .desktop files. http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Creating_Konqueror_Service_Menus Note that even though the "format" is a former standard, the location of the files and necessary ServiceTypes entry is not cross-platform. But I'm ok with switching that to a different solution (different location and/or way to identify the relevant desktop files). I think it makes a lot of sense to use the Actions= "former-spec" though. How do other environments do it? -- David Faure, [email protected], sponsored by Qt Software @ Nokia to work on KDE, Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org). _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
