Of course, my introductory message on a public mailing list has multiple errors.
s/completely/complete/; s/for/to/; etc. The code should be better ;) On 2016-01-16 19:38 +0000 Xyne wrote: >Hi everyone, > >Several years ago I wrote a few command-line tools to manage application >associations. These were eventually merged into my project, Mimeo, which has >been mildly successful on Arch Linux as a desktop-agnostic file and URL opener. >The codebase was ugly because of the way it had been gradually hacked together >but it worked relatively well. Nevertheless, a completely rewrite in Python 3 >has been pending for years. > >I have finally taken some time to do it and the new codebase is now up. It is >much cleaner and it should be much easier to maintain. A number of >inconsistencies have also been fixed. > >Here are some of the features: > >* Open files and URLs by MIME-type associations. >* Support for user-defined regular expression argument matching for further > customizability. >* Multiple commands to query information such as which desktops use a given > application, which MIME-types are associated with which desktops and vice > versa, the location of a given desktop file, the values of Desktop Entry > fields for given desktop files, etc. >* Modify the user's mimeapps.list file by adding or remove associations or > defaults. >* Options for determine if MIME-types are detected by name or by file content > first. > >Please check the project page[1] for more along with usage examples and help >messages. I would appreciate any feedback, in particular about any deviations >from the standard (at least when not using the --deprecated flag). > >Incidentally, I have not found any "standard" way to determine which terminal >command should be used for Desktop Entries that specify "Terminal=true". If >there is none, perhaps an environment variable such as XDG_TERM_CMD could be >added. > >Regards, >Xyne > >[1] http://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/mimeo/ >_______________________________________________ >xdg mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
