Vladimir Kudrya <[email protected]> > Last year I proposed a mechanism for this purpose: > https://github.com/Vladimir-csp/xdg-terminal-exec/ >
I like this proposal a lot, but it seems to me to be a little inconsistent with the selection of other default handlers. Mostly just because it would require a second desktop file for each application to put under the xdg-terminals/ directory. Though I'm no X developer, I also can't think of a cleaner way to do this, so I think it should be considered again. Liam R E Quin <[email protected]> > There's a MIME type for a shell script, which seems appropriate? > I also don't think using the existing shell script MIME type makes sense . . . not all applications that run in terminals are shell scripts, and it would seem to be more appropriate to reserve such a MIME type to serve as only the shell-language equivalent type of, say, Python scripts. Ultimately, I think if the solution is to use a MIME type, I think it should be a dummy one that assigns a terminal as its handler but does not have actual files with the type. Such a decision would be to avoid the terminal being the default handler for existing files, since really what we want to do (as far as I understand) is to open .desktop files of type text/plain and not shell scripts. Unless you want to make a new type specifically for .desktop files that have Terminal=true selected. . . .
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