Re: .iso conflict, discussion of resolution
On Sonntag, 31. August 2003 00:08, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 10:34:39PM -0700, Mike Markley wrote: > > A quick summary of this bug: > > Arson, a KDE CD burning application, includes two .desktop files to > > associate certain files with it: > > /usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-iso.desktop > > /usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-cue.desktop > > And presumably another application also wants to include these files? Is > KDE's file association system really so broken that two programs cannot > both declare themselves able to handle a certain type of file? You can do that, one program after another in the order the user wants to prefer a certain program for a certain mimetype as a handler. The issue here is that not every program written for KDE is provided by the KDE project so the packager has to take care of integrating files like the mimelnk's that the programmer maybe mistakenly added for his own make; make install laziness into the desktop by packaging. Ralf > > -- > - mdz -- We're not a company, we just produce better code at less costs. Ralf Nolden [EMAIL PROTECTED] The K Desktop Environment The KDevelop Project http://www.kde.org http://www.kdevelop.org pgpXsm4sOS68C.pgp Description: signature
Re: .iso conflict, discussion of resolution
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 06:08:17PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 10:34:39PM -0700, Mike Markley wrote: > > > A quick summary of this bug: > > Arson, a KDE CD burning application, includes two .desktop files to > > associate certain files with it: > > /usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-iso.desktop > > /usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-cue.desktop > > And presumably another application also wants to include these files? Is > KDE's file association system really so broken that two programs cannot both > declare themselves able to handle a certain type of file? Nope, mime types are completely independent of them declaring if they support it. That is why the mimetype really belongs in kdelibs itself and not the 3rd party package. Chris pgpbRneFe2HLg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: .iso conflict, discussion of resolution
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 10:34:39PM -0700, Mike Markley wrote: > A quick summary of this bug: > Arson, a KDE CD burning application, includes two .desktop files to > associate certain files with it: > /usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-iso.desktop > /usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-cue.desktop And presumably another application also wants to include these files? Is KDE's file association system really so broken that two programs cannot both declare themselves able to handle a certain type of file? -- - mdz
Re: .iso conflict, discussion of resolution
Hi, > A quick summary of this bug: > Arson, a KDE CD burning application, includes two .desktop files to > associate certain files with it: > /usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-iso.desktop > /usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-cue.desktop This sounds like you may want to use an alternative here, so that the sysadmin can choose which program to associate .iso files with by default. Of course, users must be able to override this, but I think that is given (is it?). Alternatives will have to be supported by any package that brings such a file, but need no support from unrelated packages. Putting the file in question into a base package is bad because it may associate the file with a program that is not installed. Simon -- GPG Fingerprint: 040E B5F7 84F1 4FBC CEAD ADC6 18A0 CC8D 5706 A4B4 pgpvonHOLMhYo.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: .iso conflict, discussion of resolution
Am Saturday 30 August 2003 08:06 schrieb Chris Cheney: > Stephan, > > Would it be possible to get the two desktop filesi mentioned below merged > into kdelibs so that arson and k3b are easily installable at the same time? > I can do the commit myself if you approve. > Approved. Greetings, Stephan -- "SCO doesn't have enough understanding of the case to be able to lie convincingly. Indeed they have so little understanding that it's difficult to accuse them of lying." - Greg Lehey
Re: .iso conflict, discussion of resolution
Stephan, Would it be possible to get the two desktop filesi mentioned below merged into kdelibs so that arson and k3b are easily installable at the same time? I can do the commit myself if you approve. Thanks, Chris Cheney Debian KDE Maintainer PS - Christian/Jean-Michel there is a new debian-qt-kde developer mailing list for Qt/KDE debian maintainers, debian-kde is still available for users. On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 10:34:39PM -0700, Mike Markley wrote: > All, > > A quick summary of this bug: > Arson, a KDE CD burning application, includes two .desktop files to > associate certain files with it: > /usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-iso.desktop > /usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-cue.desktop > > For more info on what's been suggested and what's been discussed, see > 195214, 195218, and 203954. pgp2OTQn6ZCJZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
