On Fri, 20 May 2011 22:30:21 +0200 Stef Bon <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2011/5/20 Kevin Krammer <[email protected]>: > > On Friday, 2011-05-20, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > > > >> 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. > > Ok, but is it really required to do this via dbus? > > Isn't it required that for example dolphin is running to "recieve" the > dbus signal > for the opening the url? Not if it is activatable over D-Bus. E.g. on Xfce, if the desktop application requests a file operation, the file manager is activated over D-Bus and runs in the background. Only the file operation dialog is presented to the user. - Jannis _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
