Re: exporting file associations for linux desktops

2007-08-09 Thread Stefan Dösinger
You will have to forgive my ignorance but I guess my other concern would be is there even a way for GNOME to handle such verbs at the moment? I was looking at http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/mime-actions-spec and it seems like there is plans for this but, at least according to

Re: exporting file associations for linux desktops

2007-08-09 Thread Misha Koshelev
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 13:24 +0200, Stefan Dösinger wrote: Another drawback of using a general wine start to call the windows apps is that we sacrifice a bit of desktop integration. It would be cool if the Linux mime type generated from the wine registry contained the application's name and

Re: exporting file associations for linux desktops

2007-08-09 Thread Vincent Povirk
On 8/9/07, Misha Koshelev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip still be able to start both). Using this approach would also solve any problems with wine's start not necessarily having the appropriate command line parameter support. I am starting to like/favor the install-time association approach.

RE: exporting file associations for linux desktops

2007-08-09 Thread Koshelev, Misha Vladislavo
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Vincent Povirk On 8/9/07, Misha Koshelev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip still be able to start both). Using this approach would also solve any problems with wine's start not necessarily having the appropriate command line parameter support. I am starting to

Re: exporting file associations for linux desktops

2007-08-08 Thread Steven Edwards
On 8/8/07, Vincent Povirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As it is right now, we have a filetype/association system in Wine's registry, and we have a completely separate one in most Linux desktops. They do not talk to each other. Wine's system relies primarily on extensions because that's what

Re: exporting file associations for linux desktops

2007-08-08 Thread Misha Koshelev
To register those verbs for Linux desktops, some sort of command-line wrapper around ShellExecute would be needed. I think this is a good idea anyway. Does Windows have anything like that? Is it worth it for me to try writing something like that based on winelib? Well this is exactly the start

Re: exporting file associations for linux desktops

2007-08-08 Thread Vincent Povirk
Wine start is not quite what I had in mind. Each file type can have multiple verbs (such as open, edit, print..), and I'd like GNOME to give me the option to use any of the verbs that are available. Wine start is apparently hard-coded to use the open verb. That may mean it's simple to modify it

Re: exporting file associations for linux desktops

2007-08-08 Thread Misha Koshelev
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 21:59 -0400, Vincent Povirk wrote: Wine start is not quite what I had in mind. Each file type can have multiple verbs (such as open, edit, print..), and I'd like GNOME to give me the option to use any of the verbs that are available. Wine start is apparently hard-coded to