On Thursday, 2011-09-22, Bastien Nocera wrote: > 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.
I was just addressing Jannis' concern that the wrong file manager would be started, which will not be the case. xdg-open will still need to start the fm program depending on DE, but can then delegate the opening/selecting via D-Bus. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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