Havoc Pennington <hp(a)redhat.com> writes:
Hi,
Couple high level points:
- consider posting this sort of thing to fedora-desktop-list in future
- jrb is currently redoing the MIME UI using a
freedesktop.org backend; don't know if this also covers
"preferred applications" but it probably should
We've gone back and forth on this on the GNOME/freedesktop lists, and
the consensus is that things like preferred applications really isn't
part of the MIME system.
On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 07:21, Warren Togami wrote:
> This means that choosing Links in the chooser as a default browser is
> currently broken due to setting the wrong key name. However I have yet
> to find a program that actually honors the need-terminal key...
need_terminal is kind of a relic from the days when something like links
would appear in the desktop menus....
We should still support it.
> I propose that we use desktop-agnostic-easy-install definitions
for
> Preferred Applications. We should standardize on a directory named
> something like /etc/sysconfig/preferred/browser.d within which each
> package can easily drop definition files.
Rather than this, we might find some way to simply use the .desktop
files the apps already install; I don't know if the
fd.org mime spec
does this or not. Though I do have some misgivings about overloading
.desktop files for more than just menu entries.
.desktop files are very overloaded anyway. What's another use or two.
But generating the list of terminals/web browsers/mail clients by
querying the desktop files makes some sense to me.
If we need command line access to preferred apps, something more
general
like "preferred-open html arg1 arg2 arg3" perhaps. In fact there may
already be a gnome-vfs-open.
gnome-vfs-open is a little bit different -- it won't work for
terminals/mail clients. A preferred-open app makes a little more sense.
> Windows-like behavior, and there is the option to change all
keybindings
> to be Unix-like globally (where is this setting?).
In .gtkrc-2.0 do gtk-key-theme = emacs.
Actually, it's cleaner to change your "Text editting shortcuts" in the
Keyboard Shortcuts dialog. This is GTK+ specific, though.
Thanks,
-Jonathan