[Portland] xdg-open and default application launching

[Kevin Krammer]

On Sunday 04 February 2007 17:46, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On February 4, 2007, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Saturday 03 February 2007 22:14, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > On February 3, 2007, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > >
> > > i think we can expect this to be in the next release of fedora. if not
> > > 7, then certainly 8 but perhaps even 7 particularly if we can get the
> > > xdg-defaultapp (or whatever) script available in cvs in time.
> >
> > Unfortunately I am currently tied up with Qt3 D-Bus and the respective
> > KDE implementation for DAPI.
>
> understandable; let's see if i/we can find a way to get this script written
> besides you =) what would you like the script(s) to be named? should we
> just add one for filemanager and webbrowser next to -terminal or provide
> something more generic that takes as a parameter which default app to
> launch? (personally i don't care, just looking for direction from those of
> you who have almost certainly spent more time thinking about these details
> than i have =)

Great, thanks. I'll write up some ideas/issues and post them in a separate 
thread.

> > I think it might depend who one approaches. Elijah Newren and Dave Neary,
> > who both attended DAM3, were very positive about it.
>
> yes, there's certainly a lack of continuity on these issues.

Jonathan Blandford and J5 were there as well, mabye they didn't properly pay 
attention during Waldo's talk ;)

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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