For what it’s worth, there already was a quite nice Intents proposal
[1]. Android Intents [2] might be interesting as well.
[1]: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2014-January/013068.html
[2]: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent
On Wed, 29 Aug, 2018 at 10:14 PM, Ian Huang <imyxhu...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey, that's a thought. Something like an intent system sounds perfect
to categorize these actions. And then desktops could stop abusing the
MIME system or gconf or hardcoding for these things. Somebody's got
to bring up that we could take the easy way out and have x-intent/ be
a whole category of dummy MIME types, but that doesn't really fix the
concern about inconsistent CLI arguments, so once again I doubt it
would be the right choice.
So yes, I think generalizing your xdg-terminal-exec proposal into a
new system for intents would be great. Off the top of my head, one
way would be that the directories could be restructured to have
xdg-intents directories (instead of xdg-terminals of course) with
subdirectories carrying the names of the intents, like
~/.local/share/xdg-intents/terminals/ for instance.
You could also structure the config .list files in the same matter.
But there might be a better way, it's kind of trivial how you should
structure this.
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 01:21 Vladimir Kudrya <vladimir-...@yandex.ru>
wrote:
That's an interesting area. For example, XFCE has generalizations
like
web browser, email client facilitated by their own reinvented wheel
inside exo-open AFAIK.
I found a way to do some without any special treatment: I have a
bind in
Openbox to open browser and mail client set up like 'xdg-open
http://'.
But it does not work well for mailto: and there is no scheme for
calculators.
Another related function: backlight. How to generalize between
xbacklight or brightnessctl depending on hardware support.
To sum it up, this is another class of tasks, not to open something
in
something, but to execute something. Intents? x-intent/email-client,
x-intent/reduce-backlight? Generalize xdg-terminal-exec into
xdg-intent-exec? X-ExecArg into X-ArgPrefix? What do you think?
On 2018-08-29 09:50, Ian Huang wrote:
> For example, many keyboards have a calculator function button that
I
> believe is hard coded to use GNOME's calculator for me at the
moment.
> Similar apps that don't necessarily handle a single type of file
but
> reasonably call for a default choice could maybe share the same
spec?
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