On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Dominique Michel <[email protected]> wrote: > Le Mon, 6 Jan 2014 15:38:34 +0000, > Jerome Leclanche <[email protected]> a écrit : > >> 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. > > Is it not the job of an application, or package manager, to > provide the right mimes type for the application? > > If that mime type does not exist, it must be added. > > Dominique >> >> J. Leclanche >> _______________________________________________ >> xdg mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
The association is irrelevant. Quassel does not support being given irc uris. You're welcome to write a patch for every broken app, though. J. Leclanche _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
