[Portland] Portland wiki

[Alex Graveley]

Hi,

1) Listing applications is up to the desktop environment on which an app 
is running.  If the "opener" implementation decides to display such a 
list, that is fine, but it is outside the scope of Portland.

2) I think we should stay away from API on the PortlandIntegrationTasks 
page, but feel free to link to some other page like PortlandVFSProposal.

-Alex

nf2 wrote:
> May i add this to the wiki?
> 
> == Launch a viewer or editor for a file, mime-type, or URL ==
> 
> - should the user be able to choose from a list of applications? (That's 
> something i don't like about Mozilla Thunderbird: it only shows the 
> default application for opening attachments).
> 
> == Access resources provided by a Virtual File System layer ==
> 
> Simple:
> 
> - downloadFile
> - uploadFile
> 
> Advanced:
> 
> - getFile (read) *)
>  -- Mime-Type and Filesize callback like in KIO? *)
>  -- start from a certain byte-offset?
> - putFile (write)
>  -- append Mode?
> - getDir
> - getFileInfo *)
> - getFileInfoAndMimeType (slow mimetype detection)
> - setFileAttributes
> - Move, copy, and delete File/Folder
> 
> *) I have already tried to implement getFile (including mimetype and 
> filesize callback)  and getFileInfo with my prototype and have been able 
> to make the KIO and Gnome-VFS backends to match in behavior (that they 
> return the same information). I guess also the advanced VFS operations 
> would work, regardless of using IPC or not.
> 
> Norbert
>