Hello everyone, I just created https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/-/merge_requests/45 with the proposal for an intent-apps spec, modeled after the mime-apps spec (but without the concept of adding/removing associations).
For context: * The desktop entry spec mentions Implement=<intent name> already for some time, but AFAIK this isn't used anywhere yet? * What's missing is a way to let the user (or the sysadmin or the distro) decide which alternative to prefer (possibly depending on the desktop environment). mimeapps does this nicely for mimetypes, so intentapps just reuses that solution, but outside the world of mimetypes * This came up in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/-/issues/54 where we're discussing "Have a standard way for users to specify which terminal should open .desktop applications with Terminal=true". The solution involves implementing a DBus interface (dubbed org.freedesktop.Terminal1). This is similar to the existing org.freedesktop.FileManager1 DBus interface. All applications implementing org.freedesktop.Terminal1 will specify Implements=org.freedesktop.Terminal1 in their desktop file, and intent- apps.lst files can then be used to pick the preferred one. I am willing to implement this on the KDE side, I'm especially interested in feedback from whoever feels like implementing this in glib and other implementations. -- David Faure, fa...@kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr Working on KDE Frameworks 5 _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
