On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 12:33 PM Dasith Gunawardhana <das...@dg10a.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Windows recently introduced their "Hosted Apps" model. I think a similar > concept will work well for this problem. It would require an extension to the > Desktop Entry Specification and a new Default Apps Specification. > > If an application requires another application as an executor or runtime, > i.e. a "host", it has the "Host" key defined in its desktop entry. > > The "Host" value is one of two things: > - a reverse DNS name declaring the host application type. > - a path to an executable > > Some examples of host application types could be: > - org.freedesktop.defaultapp.Browser > - org.freedesktop.defaultapp.Terminal > > For each host application type we create a file in the directory > "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/deault-apps" with the same reverse DNS name. Some ideas for > what that file would look like: > > 1. > # org.freedesktop.defaultapp.Terminal > > Exec=alacritty -e >
That also seems like a reasonable way to do it to me. I wrote the spec I did because it mirrors the MIME spec, but other than that I don't have any preference between that and this. > 2. Just a symlink to a desktop entry or executable on the system. > The difficult with this would be that the options used when launching a terminal application with a terminal may be different than the options used to launch the terminal by itself. For example the `-e` option in alacritty would be needed when it is used to launch another app, but not when it is started by itself > This would allow for: > - Setting the default terminal > - Creating desktop entries for non-applications like individual web pages, > PWAs, or scripts, all with the executor determined at runtime, instead of > being predefined in the desktop entry. > The ability to use non-applications as default apps is cool. Although I suppose you could create .desktop files for those currently. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
