On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 15:09 +0200, Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Thursday, 2011-09-22, Jannis Pohlmann wrote: > > > IMHO that's a bad idea. Bypassing DE-specific checks and forwarding > > straight to the FileManager1 service means that, on a multi-user system > > with multiple file managers installed, people may easily end up > > launching file managers other than the one they expect to see. > > > > The same problem occurs if applications start using the FileManager1 > > service for opening folders directly (and other features that we might > > add to the interface in the future). Let's say a GNOME application does > > that and both, Nautilus and Thunar are installed. Which one is going to > > pop up? Is there any solution to this? > > As long as none of the file managers installs a D-Bus service file for the > given interface there shouldn't be any problem. > The call will either go to an already running file manager, which we can then > savely assume to be the correct one, or fail.
Which is absolutely useless for GNOME 3.x as nautilus (our file manager) doesn't run by default. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
