Proposal and RFC: DAL, the Desktop Abstraction Layer

[Julien PUYDT]

Le samedi 15 janvier 2005 à 19:17 +0100, Ikke a écrit :
> > It's broken for an app to do something like list available TextEditor
> > and then pick one using its own algorithm. When activating TextEditor,
> > you want the same one to start no matter who starts it. The user or
> > admin would set which one this is.
> 
> True in case of a text editor. But if I got beep-media-player playing
> some files, and I open a msuic file in (eg) Nautilus, I want that file
> to be played inside BMP, I dont want nautilus to start Rhythmbox (my
> default player, as an example) so 2 tracks start playing at the same
> time.
> This is quite situation-dependant IMHO.

But if I understood well, if BMP is running and owns the music playing
service, rhythmbox won't be started, since the service is already
available!

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