Only one think I must add is in the world of sandboxing and containers like flatpak we need a method can be exposed. and really rather not xdg-open like wrapper that end wrapping 20 programs with platform detection. Show quoted text
On Mon, 20 Jul 2020, 21:54 Vladimir Kudrya, <vladimir-...@yandex.ru> wrote: > I believe my previous proposal still holds here. > https://github.com/Vladimir-csp/xdg-terminal-exec > On 2020-07-20 14:00, s...@collabora.com wrote: > > * Must be user-configurable (overriding desktop and distro defaults) > > Check. > > * Must produce a sensible result without user configuration (installing a > desktop Linux distribution should have a sensible default) > > If desktop's terminal provides .desktop file in xdg-terminals dir under > XDG_DATA hierarchy, it will be chosen > > * Default is desktop-dependent (if the user has not expressed a preference, > GNOME users expect to see gnome-terminal and KDE users expect konsole) > - In particular this means things like the Debian /etc/alternatives > mechanism are unsuitable > > Desktops can provide /etc/xdg/$desktop-xdg-terminals.list > > * Reading the configuration format should not require linking to specific > implementation libraries > - GLib isn't going to want to link to KDE libraries, Qt/KDE isn't going > to want to link to GNOME libraries, and neither is likely to want to > become dependent on some desktop-agnostic abstraction layer library > whose continued maintenance they cannot guarantee > > Plain .desktop entries and ini configs in XDG_CONFIG hierarchy. > > > * Different terminals need different arguments to introduce the command > to execute > - xterm -e > - gnome-terminal -x (in old versions) > - gnome-terminal -- (in new versions) > > Covered. > > * Some terminal authors will be unwilling to introduce a D-Bus dependency > - In particular xterm is unlikely to do this > > Proposal's reference implementation is pure shell. > > Many of the requirements are the same as for MIME-type handling, so > many of them can be satisfied by an implementation that mimics MIME-type > handling. > > Exactly. > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > xdg@lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg >
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