Hi, The DVD folder was only an example, and I think there's many applications for this sort of functionality. The reason I'm asking about it is for a project I'm working on that requires something along those lines (FOSS Linux and Unix-like project).
Do you think a magic pattern could be set to determine if it's a matching folder? Doesn't have to be an extension, could be a specific file inside the folder. Thanks On 08/02/2011, at 6:10 PM, Křištof Želechovski <[email protected]> wrote: > Dnia wtorek, 8 lutego 2011 o 01:28:38 Keith Poole napisał(a): >> Hi Kristof. >> >> A good example of what I'm trying to do would be to allow *.DVD folders to >> open in a specified application as opposed to opening in the file browser. >> Of course the user may still want to browse the folder etc, hence my >> subclassing. >> >> MIME types may not be the way to do this, but I was hoping for a solution >> that was transparent to the file manager as much as possible. The last thing >> I want to do is go patching thunar, konq, nautilus, etc. >> > > Why would you want to change the handler application? A DVD holds tracks > that hold read-only file systems that can hold any data, and with a special > provision that some file systems within tracks allow you to "borrow" files > stored on previous tracks. So I guess that would be a set of numbered tracks > that the application would extract content from, wouldn’t it? I do not think > such an application would be particularly useful, but it is of course up to > you :-) > > However, have in mind that XDG tools are in a habit of looking *inside* files > to determine what they contain; the file name is only a hint. And yes, the > file manager should automatically match the view mode to the perceived > content if we want it to work just like Microsoft Windows Explorer (which is, > admit it, quite smart in most cases, although probably not in the DVD case in > particular — not that I can attest in either direction because I never saw > such a directory in my life). > > IMHO, > Chris _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
