Hi folks, I'm currently thinking about a generic ways for configuring external helpers, eg. mail client, web browser, etc. (at least on *nix ;-p)
For now, many applications (eg. libreoffice) have their own settings, which adds additional code/complexity and requires the user to set it in each single application. Let's imagine some approach which allows it on a system-wide, user-wide, system-wide as well as application-wide basis - how could that look like ? From individual application side, it just wants to know which command to call. It then just would call an universal wrapper, eg. like this: common-helper-app --caller=LibreOffice web-browser --url="http://foo.bar"; common-helper-app --caller=LibreOffice web-add-bookmark --url "http://www.libreoffice.org"; --title "LibreOffice Homepage" common-helper-app --caller=LibreOffice mail-compose --mailto "f...@bar.org" --subject "Hello world" common-helper-app --caller=LibreOffice mail-mailbox --inbox common-helper-app --caller=LibreOffice show-document --auto --file "~/my_image.png" common-helper-app --caller=LibreOffice edit-document --auto --file "~/funny_pic.jpg" If an application wants to launch an settings dialog for itself, it would call: common-helper-app --caller=LibreOffice configure This 'common-helper-app' could be written in shellscript or whatever language one likes and is provided by the distro. It's now fully up to that command to decide what really to do (it could even consider session specific things like whether to use a graphical or text terminal, use desktop environment specific settings, etc, etc). What do you think about this idea ? cu -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards Enrico Weigelt VNC - Virtual Network Consult GmbH Head Of Development Pariser Platz 4a, D-10117 Berlin Tel.: +49 (30) 3464615-20 Fax: +49 (30) 3464615-59 enrico.weig...@vnc.biz; www.vnc.de _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
