On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 14:48 +0100, David Faure wrote: > On Monday 06 January 2014 14:44:27 Bastien Nocera wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 14:35 +0100, David Faure wrote: > > > On Monday 06 January 2014 14:28:01 Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > > And it's more about services (allow me to pick a photo, or select a > > > > contact) than about full-fledged applications. A terminal emulator can > > > > hardly be thought as providing a service to other applications, a photo > > > > picker provided by the native photo application would. > > > > > > My point is that both needs (i.e. use cases) exist. > > > > > > I know that "intents" and the use of dbus interfaces is about what you > > > describe. > > > > > > I'm simply pointing out that the other use case (merely starting apps, at > > > most with a url on the command line) exists too, and that I'd like to see > > > a standard solution for it. > > > > The URL would/should have a mime-type associated to it, so you can just > > lookup by mime-type. > > "at most" means "sometimes none". > > There's no URL and no mimetype involved when listing or starting > - window managers > - terminal emulators
Those would be covered by the Implements changes documented by Ryan: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73317 > - instant messaging apps xmpp, and irc schemes at least, so those are covered by x-scheme-handler/* > - email clients mailto scheme _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg