Anyone has any thoughts on this? J. Leclanche
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Jerome Leclanche <adys...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi list > > I mentioned in my email about intents that we need to be able to bind > Desktop Actions to mime types (and potentially intents). I'm going to > implement support for this next in my lib and I wanted to ask opinions > about syntax. > > This is an example of a registered mime action: > > [Added Associations] > image/png=foo.desktop;bar.desktop; > > Assuming foo.desktop has a "Desktop Action Bar", registering a mime > type in the desktop action involves caching it (and being able to > associate it as well), which in turn needs to be identified directly > while remaining backwards-compatible with current implementations. > > All current implementations I tested will simply ignore the value if > it points to a non-existant desktop file, which means we can do > something like this: > > image/png=foo.desktop[Gallery];bar.desktop; > > This is the syntax I proposed. There are alternatives: > > image/png=foo.desktop[Desktop Action Gallery];bar.desktop; > image/png=foo.desktop#Gallery;bar.desktop; > image/png=foo.desktop=Gallery;bar.desktop; > > etc. > > A single-character split might be easier to implement than brackets. Thoughts? > > J. Leclanche _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg