>> Ummm, which preferences? For example, xdg-open does some heuristics to >> determine which desktop environment is running, and then it just calls >> gnome-open, kfmclient, exo-open, etc. as appropriate. >> >> (Yeah, it's kind of ugly. This D-Bus stuff would indeed make things >> much easier.) > > Please excuse me for being slighlty offtopic, but being one of the initiators > of the xdg-utils scripts I have to voice my agreement with this assessment. > > These scripts where intended as a quick work around until a more apporpriate > solution like standardzed interfaces could be provided. > > Unfortunately this never happened for various reasons, so any move into that > direction is highly appreciated.
Hmm except some OS don't have D-Bus (like Haiku), but have a shell that can run those. (I recall sending patches to add support for BeOS/Haiku btw...) François. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
