Am Sonntag, den 07.06.2009, 16:28 +0100 schrieb Bastien Nocera: > On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 14:00 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote: > > Am Sonntag, den 07.06.2009, 12:50 +0100 schrieb Bastien Nocera: > > > On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 13:52 +0800, PCMan wrote: > > > > Hi list, > > > > To solve the issue that every desktop environment has its own way to > > > > specify default web browser and terminal emulator, I wrote a new spec > > > > to create a cross-desktop mechanism for this. This spec works by > > > > extending existing XDG specs and only requires minimal changes to > > > > existing systems without breaking backward compatibility. Besides, it > > > > can work in an desktop independent way, and can work with existing xdg > > > > tools like desktop-utils. > > > > > > > > Here is the full specification. > > > > http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Desktop_Preferred_Applications_Specification > > > > > > > > This spec is going to be implemented by LXDE later. > > > > > > > > Please give some comments. > > > > > > It doesn't help with one of the problems I had with the existing GNOME > > > setup: > > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510800#c4 > > > > Correct me If I'm wrong, but that's a completely different issue: > > nautilus-sendto. If we had a standard for preferred apps, > > nautilus-sendto could also follow it. > > Yes, but we'd still be missing metadata to tell us how to construct the > commands to launch those mailers with attachments.
Why not adopt Xfce's approach? Something like: X-XFCE-Commands= X-XFCE-CommandsWithParameter= > > BTW: IMO we also need a "sendto"-spec similar to what Thunar already > > does. Then nautilus-sendto would be obsolete anyway. > > What does Thunar do that would obsolete nautilus-sendto? Why is nautilus-sendto obsolete? I still see it being used in nautilus 2.26.2. If it's obsoleted, what's it's successor? I only mentioned Thunar as an example, because it's usage of the fdo specs for the "send to" menu IMO is very clean and simple. Just drop a desktop file in /usr/share/Thunar/sendto and you are ready to go. I don't know a file manager that offers similar functionality and IMO this should be a standard feature across all desktops - then you don't even need a successor for nautilus-sendto. Regards, Christoph _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
