Le 03/04/2014 10:31, David Faure a écrit :
On Thursday 03 April 2014 01:39:27 Luc Menut wrote:
The previous freedesktop specification was
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/mime-actions-spec
I guess it will be deprecated by the current proposal.
Yes. That wasn't even a spec, just a current state of affairs :)
As soon as I push the spec I'll update that wiki page to point to the spec.
What about KDE's InitialPreference and Gnome's defaults.list?
IIUC, I guess that they are deprecated too, and will be respectively
replaced by kde-mimeapps.list and gnome-mimeapps.list.
Yes.
But at which level? "application vendors" (= $XDG_DATA_HOME/applications)?
No. Application here means ISVs. E.g. if a third-party application like Skype,
Google Earth, etc. absolutely wants to make itself default upon installation.
The recommended location for the initial kde-mimeapps.list and gnome-
mimeapps.list provided by the distribution (or by kde/gnome themselves when
compiling from source) is $XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications/$xdc-mimeapps.list
OK, thanks for the clarification.
The proposed lookup order = preferences order is
users > sys-admin > vendors > distribution
Depends what you mean by vendor. If you mean KDE, it's part of the
distribution. If you mean Skype, it's at the same level as sysadmins.
OK
If desktop environments install their default preferences
($xdc-mimeapps.list) at vendors level, desktop environments preferences
will override distribution preferences (when they overlap).
No, distributions will adjust the desktop environment preferences.
Then, if a distribution wants to modify a desktop environment preference
for a mimetype, the only way seems to patch the desktop environment
$xdc-mimeapps.list? or have I missed something?
Yes. Is there a strong need to keep the "upstream mimeapps.list" unchanged? It
just seems to add yet another level in the list, which is already quite big.
You are right, this looks good.
Thanks
regards,
Luc
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