Cross-desktop helpers

[Jaap Karssenberg]

Alex Graveley
wrote on Thu, 09 Dec 2004 13:00:59 -0800:
> I really want a way to make my users happy.  XDG's charter is to
> provide the mechanism for this.  Yet I still have no desktop-neutral
> way of accomplishing the following:
> 
> 	* opening a file browser for a given local directory
> 	* opening a web browser
> 	* opening an email composer
> 
> How can we fix this?

I would say that the unix way of fixing the problem is to have a
directory with a link or shell-scripts for each of these tasks and a
environment variable to point at the directory.

... yes I use rox ;)

A in my opinion less clean solution would be to have pseudo-mimetypes
for this kind of things and integrate with the "MIME run actions"
specification that is in the making.

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