Cross-desktop helpers

[Alex Graveley]

This sounds sane to me.

-Alex

On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 02:32 +0100, nf wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 15:18, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > Hi Hongli,
> > 
> > On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 23:56 +0100, Hongli Lai wrote:
> > > Alex Graveley wrote:
> > > > 	* opening a web browser
> > > 
> > > It's a bit hacky, but I wrote a script which tries to guess the user's 
> > > preferred browser, based on the current desktop environment.
> 
> > 	As hacky as this may be, its not a million miles away from the solution
> > we converged towards when discussing the $DESKTOP proposal earlier ...
> > 
> > 	i.e. have a defined $DESKTOP_LAUNCH env variable, have the session
> > managers set it to something appropriate and provide a small sample
> > implementation of using this (be it a shell script, and maybe a small
> > sample xdglaunch.c).
> > 
> > 	The key thing is to tackle each of these problems in such a way that we
> > don't have every app hardcoding the kind of logic you have in your shell
> > script.
> > 
> 
> Perhaps every desktop should set a $DESKTOP_CTL variable, which points
> to a desktop specific control client like
> 
> kde_ctl
> gnome_ctl
> rox_ctl
> 
> Those $DESKTOP_CTL executables implement a standardized interface
> (command line args, stdin, stdout and error codes). The important thing
> would be to have a "single entry point", not separate env vars for the
> default web-browser, file-manager, mail-client,...
> 
> $DESKTOP_CTL --open-browser url
> 
> $DESKTOP_CTL --edit file.ext
> 
> $DESKTOP_CTL --open-filemanager file/dir
> 
> cat mailtxt | $DESKTOP_CTL --compose-mail --to xyz at xyz.com
> 
> echo $DESKTOP_CTL --which-desktop
> 
> $DESKTOP_CTL --list-features | grep supports_compose_mail 
> ...
> 
> Norbert
> 
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