How does [Desktop Action ...] work?

[Milosz Derezynski]

We just had a check wrg to this and our app with various desktop
environments, and Thunar (the new, or to-become-default filemanager of XFCE)
seems to support it.

(App is BMPx btw, http://bmpx.beep-media-player.org)

On 2/6/06, David Collier-Brown <David.Collier-Brown at sun.com> wrote:
>
> The last time I looked, it seemed unimplemented. Which was
> a bummer, because I wanted to write an article about it (;-))
>
> --dave
>
> Ernst Persson wrote:
> > Is there a real specification for [Desktop Action ...] yet?
> > A list of standard actions would be great!
> > Does the freedesktop tools support this, so the information
> > can be collected from all desktop-files to a database?
> > This would be great for gnome-volume-manager and
> > gnome-default-applications for example, which both let's you
> > choose an application for a specific action.
> >
> > [Desktop Action PlayCD]
> > Name=Totem
> > Exec=totem --play --dev=%d
> > OnlyShowIn=GNOME
> >
> > Like this?
> >
> > Regards
> > /Ernst Persson
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