On Thursday 03 April 2014 01:39:27 Luc Menut wrote: > The previous freedesktop specification was > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/mime-actions-spec > I guess it will be deprecated by the current proposal.
Yes. That wasn't even a spec, just a current state of affairs :) As soon as I push the spec I'll update that wiki page to point to the spec. > 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. Yes. > But at which level? "application vendors" (= $XDG_DATA_HOME/applications)? No. Application here means ISVs. E.g. if a third-party application like Skype, Google Earth, etc. absolutely wants to make itself default upon installation. The recommended location for the initial kde-mimeapps.list and gnome- mimeapps.list provided by the distribution (or by kde/gnome themselves when compiling from source) is $XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications/$xdc-mimeapps.list > The proposed lookup order = preferences order is > users > sys-admin > vendors > distribution Depends what you mean by vendor. If you mean KDE, it's part of the distribution. If you mean Skype, it's at the same level as sysadmins. > If desktop environments install their default preferences > ($xdc-mimeapps.list) at vendors level, desktop environments preferences > will override distribution preferences (when they overlap). No, distributions will adjust the desktop environment preferences. > 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? Yes. Is there a strong need to keep the "upstream mimeapps.list" unchanged? It just seems to add yet another level in the list, which is already quite big. -- David Faure, fa...@kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr Working on KDE, in particular KDE Frameworks 5 _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
