On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Bastien Nocera <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 14:48 +0100, David Faure wrote: >> 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 > > Those would be covered by the Implements changes documented by Ryan: > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73317 > >> - instant messaging apps > > xmpp, and irc schemes at least, so those are covered by > x-scheme-handler/* > >> - email clients > > mailto scheme >
All these are not safe assumptions. Quassel, for example, does not support irc: uris. J. Leclanche _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
