<div dir="ltr">Why do browsers want to be the default? For what MIME types? </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Jerome Leclanche <<a href="mailto:adys.wh@gmail.com" target="_blank">adys.wh@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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 <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Jasper St. Pierre <<a href="mailto:jstpierre@mecheye.net">jstpierre@mecheye.net</a>> 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 <<a href="mailto:faure@kde.org">faure@kde.org</a>> 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, <a href="mailto:faure@kde.org">faure@kde.org</a>, <a href="http://www.davidfaure.fr" target="_blank">http://www.davidfaure.fr</a> >> Working on KDE, in particular KDE Frameworks 5 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> xdg mailing list >> <a href="mailto:xdg@lists.freedesktop.org">xdg@lists.freedesktop.org</a> >> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg</a> > > > > > -- > Jasper > > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > <a href="mailto:xdg@lists.freedesktop.org">xdg@lists.freedesktop.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg</a> > </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Jasper </div>