I'm not sure that I fuly understand the suggestion; and `apropos xdg` shows nothing here, but making `mc` the CENTER of one's computing makes good sense. The traditional way of relying on monster apps. like univeral browser/mailer/news..etc. is inferior to the object-oriented approach, of making you DATA/files the center.
The applications will be replaced in time, but your DATA is the valuable stuff which lasts forever. So, by taking you dir-tree as the center [which mc handles so well], you have nodes/sub-dirs for each project. A typical project might entail: email, USEnet articles, efax, *.pdf, htm-articles ..etc. Different apps will fetch the data/s. But the data/s for the particular project a centralised. That's why I need insight to make a table of: <path which is open with mc> = <Desktop,VT> eg. /mnt/p11/legal/fish/med = 3,4 shows that when an item for fish-medicine arrives, I should just switch to desktop3, VT4, instead of searching or opening a new `mc`. I made an app for old knl 2,4 Mandrake to show me this, which depended on the fact the Mandrake's `pstree-p` showed the VT's grouped under their Desktop. Now I'm using slak13 + xfce and I can't use my previous app. == Chris Glur. On 6/4/11, mc-requ...@gnome.org <mc-requ...@gnome.org> wrote: > Send mc mailing list submissions to > mc@gnome.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > mc-requ...@gnome.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > mc-ow...@gnome.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of mc digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Open files with application (Sergiy Kukunin) > 2. Re: Open files with application (Yury V. Zaytsev) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 19:26:39 +0300 > From: Sergiy Kukunin <sergey.kuku...@gmail.com> > To: mc@gnome.org > Subject: Open files with application > Message-ID: <banlktikutdyv4fmpyu3uocwfooloeay...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hello. MC has built-in default application manager in .mc/bindings file. It > is cool, and I want use it for all applications ( browser, pidgin, skype etc > ). All of that applications uses xdg-open for opening file in application, > whic is simple bash script. I can replace xdg-open with something similar: > 'mc -a $@' and mc determines and starts application for this file. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc/attachments/20110603/71388e4c/attachment.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 22:27:10 +0200 > From: "Yury V. Zaytsev" <y...@shurup.com> > To: Sergiy Kukunin <sergey.kuku...@gmail.com> > Cc: mc@gnome.org > Subject: Re: Open files with application > Message-ID: <1307132830.2698.518.camel@newpride> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 19:26 +0300, Sergiy Kukunin wrote: >> Hello. MC has built-in default application manager in .mc/bindings >> file. It is cool, and I want use it for all applications ( browser, >> pidgin, skype etc ). All of that applications uses xdg-open for >> opening file in application, whic is simple bash script. I can replace >> xdg-open with something similar: 'mc -a $@' and mc determines and >> starts application for this file. > > Is this a question or a statement? > > If it is a question, then I believe it is ill-posed. We actually would > like to modify the built-in mechanism to make it more of a mailcap > parser with few very specific overrides, instead of making it even more > elaborated. > > There are many problems with the current implementation. For instance, > it is not possible to extend the defaults, only override the whole file. > A variation of this problem causes issues upon upgrades. > > All in all this ended up a NIH re-implementation of mailcap which causes > duplication of the configuration and doesn't bear substantial > advantages. > > So if this is in fact a statement, we would rather appreciate help with > re-doing it, instead of making it even more elaborate and increase > duplication. > > -- > Sincerely yours, > Yury V. Zaytsev > > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > mc mailing list > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc > > > End of mc Digest, Vol 86, Issue 2 > ********************************* > _______________________________________________ mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
