Le 02/04/2014 17:06, David Faure a écrit :
After so many years, he's finally a proposal for a unified mechanism for
selecting the default application for a given mimetype.
The mechanism is unified, but note that it supports different defaults for
different desktop environments, if so desired.
This is the result of a discussion with Ryan Lortie, Alex Larsson and myself,
I'm sending it here for further comments before pushing it to the git repo.
Great work. Many thanks, it's really nice to see improvements and
standardization on this.
I have some questions about this specification proposal.
The previous freedesktop specification was
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/mime-actions-spec
I guess it will be deprecated by the current proposal.
What about KDE's InitialPreference and Gnome's defaults.list?
IIUC, I guess that they are deprecated too, and will be respectively
replaced by kde-mimeapps.list and gnome-mimeapps.list.
But at which level? "application vendors" (= $XDG_DATA_HOME/applications)?
The proposed lookup order = preferences order is
users > sys-admin > vendors > distribution
If desktop environments install their default preferences
($xdc-mimeapps.list) at vendors level, desktop environments preferences
will override distribution preferences (when they overlap).
Then, if a distribution wants to modify a desktop environment preference
for a mimetype, the only way seems to patch the desktop environment
$xdc-mimeapps.list? or have I missed something?
regards,
Luc
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