On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 at 19:22:35 +0100, Jan Tojnar wrote: > For example, to edit a screenshot file in Pictures directory. In Nautilus, I > currently have to click “open with other application” and then find GIMP in > the dialogue. I just do not bother and drag the file on manually started > instance of GIMP instead. > > I imagine that if the MIME types in desktop files were annotated with > intent, Nautilus could run the mime-apps-spec algorithm [1] twice, filtering > for “view” intent one time and “edit” intent the second time, and it could > show edit action in the context menu if they differ.
Prior art: in mailcap(5), which is how MIME handling was done before .desktop files (and sometimes still is), there are separate verbs for view (the default), edit, print and compose. https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/mailcap/mailcap.5.en.html https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/mailcap/run-mailcap.1.en.html smcv _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
