[Portland] [Update] xdg-utils

[Kevin Krammer]

On Tuesday 21 March 2006 17:51, Jeremy White wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> This all looks great to me.  Seems it'd be nice to get this under
> source control; I'd be happy to submit patches, but I worry right
> now that I may trample on you (or at least that's my excuse for
> not doing any work <grin>).

Hehe, nice excuse :)
Since I have CVS access now, I will import the my current snapshot within the 
hour.

> On a tangent - what do you think about adding a capability for
> a user defined hook?  That is, if there is a xdg-open-hook script,
> we invoke it at startup; if it returns 0, we bail and assume
> it handled it.
>
> This is likely to be overkill, but I'm thinking of some users
> I've got that are beating me up right now.  This would make them
> leave me alone <grin>.  That is, it would give the distro the
> ability to override xdg-utils, and there would also be a mechanism
> for users to further customize application behavior to suit their
> own fancy, without having to muck with the system utilities.
>
> Thoughts?

Hmm.
I think it depends on the decision for script locating, i.e. what you started 
to discuss here[1]

If for example the first occurence in PATH is used, it should be possible to 
override "our" scripts entirely.

Cheers,
Kevin

[1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/portland/2006-March/000251.html
-- 
Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at>
Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User
Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtcentre.org
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