Support separate file "actions" via MIME-type

[Lucas Rocha]

Hi,

Nautilus doesn't have support for action entries on .desktop files
yet. Maybe this is why you thought there was no such thing in the
spec. See bug #170209 on GNOME Bugzilla. Good chance to cook a patch
for this. :-)

p eace

--lucasr


2006/6/12, Benedikt Meurer <benny at xfce.org>:
> Alex Jones wrote:
> > Hi
>
> Hey Alex,
>
> > Originally posted on FDO Bugzilla
> > (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7184), but Owen Taylor
> > suggested I posted to this list to get some exposure.
> >
> > Disclaimer: I don't fully understand the spec, yet.
> >
> > Currently, file actions are linked to .desktop files on a one-to-one basis. For
> > example, AbiWord has a file, "abiword.desktop", which describes its Launcher
> > behaviour, including name, generic name, comment, categories (for application
> > organisation) and the command used to start the application.
> >
> > If, for example, you wanted several actions for a particular file, you would
> > have to create separate .desktop files. You might want three actions for audio
> > files in Rhythmbox - "Play now in Rhythmbox", "Add to Rhythmbox library", "Queue
> > in Rhythmbox". I see no way you can do this without creating separate .desktop
> > files.
>
> There's already a mechanism for "Desktop Actions" defined in the spec
> and it's currently supported by Thunar and Konqueror. See the "How dows
> [Desktop Action...] work?" thread for details:
>
>  http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2006-February/007718.html
>
> See the xfmedia.desktop.in file at
>
>  http://svn.xfce.org/svn/xfce/xfmedia/trunk/xfmedia.desktop.in
>
> for an example of how to add additional actions for media players, which
> will be displayed like this
>
>  http://thunar.xfce.org/images/thunar-desktop-actions.png
>
> in the file managers that support desktop actions.
>
> Maybe the desktop-entry spec should be updated to better describe the
> desktop actions?
>
> HTH,
> Benedikt
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