Why do browsers want to be the default? For what MIME types?
On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Jerome Leclanche <adys...@gmail.com> wrote: > For what it's worth, I agree. However the use case of browsers asking > to be default has to be taken into account, and we are very far from > being able to offer them an api to *properly* become so. > J. Leclanche > > > On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpie...@mecheye.net> > wrote: > > No idea how "DPNH" got there. Cat on a keyboard or something. > > > > RealPlayer was an app known for making terrible forceful customizations > to > > the user's system on Windows. If you deleted the Start Menu, Desktop, or > > Quick Launch shortcut and ran RealPlayer, it would notice and re-add all > the > > shortcuts. If it wasn't the default MIME handler, it would silently > > reregister itself for all media types it supported. > > > > Having an official way to do this is a way to tell ISVs that they > *should* > > do this, that it's recommended practice if you have an app that handles a > > MIME type. Apps that want to force their way into the user's > customizations > > are RealPlayer, and we should let them feel shameful hacking up > > /usr/share/applications/mimeapps.list on install, and bare the > > responsibility if it breaks, not give them an API for it. > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 5:12 AM, David Faure <fa...@kde.org> wrote: > >> > >> On Friday 04 April 2014 16:54:01 Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > >> > > 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. > >> > > >> > This seems like a poor choice to me. Do we have any use cases for > this? > >> > It > >> > seems to me like this would be giving the app the RealPlayer API, > which > >> > is > >> > not something I'm comfortable doing. DPNH > >> > >> I don't understand the relation to RealPlayer or "DPNH", > >> but about the whole ISV idea is: since I suspect some apps will want to > >> set > >> themselves as default upon installation (even if we don't agree with > it), > >> we > >> might as well provide a way to do this cleanly rather than seeing these > >> apps > >> hack into /usr/share/applications/mimeapps.list. > >> In any case this is the same level as sysadmin customizations, so > whether > >> or > >> not ISVs use it doesn't change anything to the spec. > >> > >> -- > >> 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 > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Jasper > > > > _______________________________________________ > > xdg mailing list > > xdg@lists.freedesktop.org > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg > > > -- Jasper
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