The earlier implementation IIRC worked in the following way. App -> contractor [give me a list if programs that handle file type x]
<- [program a b ... ..] App asks the user to select one or selects one itself and App -> Contractor [program Id x, for file/uri y] <- [command string] App executes this using execv or something similar. The '->' is for dbus function calls and '<-' for return. Dbus is just a protocol for doing interprocess communication so a program/script can use contractor if it can use dbus.
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