Thank you Hans for making things clearer (I changed to text mode :) ). Thank you Aleksei for the link. Good to know that this has already been discussed. As far as I can tell, adding this --select option to xdg-open seems like a very wishfull thing to have. >From a user point of view, I would not know a use case for selecting multiple files, but that might be my limited view on the matter. I don't know if every Linux distribution has D-bus, but from my limited point of view it makes more sense to implement it by using the file manager, it makes it a bit less dependant on other components, right?
Kind regards, Vincent On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Hans de Goede <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > On 04/21/2013 10:54 PM, Aleksei Lissitsin wrote: >> >> Please also see this post >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2011-September/012060.html >> and subsequent discussion on the issue. > > > Thanks for pointing out that thread! > > That threads talks about a d-bus interface, which seems unnatural > to me, since for all other kind of open actions, we use mime-types -> > application logic. As discussed in that thread, the dbus interface > idea adds nothing that allows the user to specify which file-manager > he wants to use (similar to how the user can select a preferred browser > and a preferred mail client). > > To me the d-bus interface feels like look we've got this hammer called > d-bus, and that looks like it might be a nail, so lets hammer it. > > Besides that d-bus does not seem to be the right tool for this, and > does not allow a user to easily choose between multiple implementations > of the same interface, it seems that the thread you reference also never > reached any sort of conclusion. > > > Regards, > > Hans > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
