On Monday 06 January 2014 14:44:27 Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 14:35 +0100, David Faure wrote: > > On Monday 06 January 2014 14:28:01 Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > And it's more about services (allow me to pick a photo, or select a > > > contact) than about full-fledged applications. A terminal emulator can > > > hardly be thought as providing a service to other applications, a photo > > > picker provided by the native photo application would. > > > > My point is that both needs (i.e. use cases) exist. > > > > I know that "intents" and the use of dbus interfaces is about what you > > describe. > > > > I'm simply pointing out that the other use case (merely starting apps, at > > most with a url on the command line) exists too, and that I'd like to see > > a standard solution for it. > > The URL would/should have a mime-type associated to it, so you can just > lookup by mime-type.
"at most" means "sometimes none". There's no URL and no mimetype involved when listing or starting - window managers - terminal emulators - instant messaging apps - email clients -- David Faure, [email protected], http://www.davidfaure.fr Working on KDE, in particular KDE Frameworks 5 _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
