[Portland] Summarize current plan?

[Kevin Krammer]

On Monday 13 March 2006 06:41, Dan Kegel wrote:
> On 3/12/06, Jeremy White <jwhite at codeweavers.com> wrote:
> > Along those lines, I posted a script for managing icons here:
> >   http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2006-February/007685.html
> > (note that the attached script there has a bug; the ~/.kde
> > default should have a further 'share' in the path).
>
> Oh, man, that post started a long thread, most of which is interesting.
>
> One post in particular by Aaron seems germane:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2006-February/007743.html
>
> >i wonder if we shouldn't provide some simple command line tools
> >to add/remove paths. this way in the future if we change course
> >again ISVs won't have to change what they do
> >(just call "addxdgdatadir /the/new/path" or what-have-you),
> >we'll just update the tools. this would have the added bonus
> >of Getting It Right(tm) without app developers having to do much work.
>
> Hey, that sounds like the kind of simple commandline tools
> I've been talking about.

I'd like to ask for some clarification on this:
if I understand correctly, it would be feasible from the ISVs point of view to 
do some of the portland integration tasks through commandline 
applications/shell scripts, at least as a short and medium term solution.

I ask because quite a number of the listed integration tasks can be done with 
commandline tools on KDE and I assume on other desktops as well (or can be 
added if not available yet)

Let me give an example:
as documented on http://freedesktop.org/wiki/PortlandTaskOpenURL it can be 
done on GNOME using gnome-open and on KDE using kfmclient

If we provided a wrapper script, for example named xdg-open, which "detects" 
the DE and delegates the parameters to the respective tools, would that be 
more to your liking?

Cheers,
Kevin

P.S.: a rather limited overview of KDE's commandline clients can be found in a 
presentation I did last year for a local Linux event.
http://www.sbox.tugraz.at/home/v/voyager/scriptingkde/

-- 
Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at>
Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User
Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtcentre.org
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