implementation of per-environment MIME defaults

[David Faure]

On Monday 20 September 2010, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> Hallo.
> 
> Per-environment MIME defaults were mentioned several times in this list.
> 
> I did a step forward and finished an implementation for GIO and
> desktop-file-utils. It makes possible to use per environment
> defaults.list. KDE and GNOME users can get different defaults of the
> same application and on the same system.
> 
> It will make behavior of GIO based application more consistent with the
> running desktop in GNOME, KDE and others.
> 
> It consists of two changes:
> 
> desktop-file-utils update-desktop-database will contains a smart
> heuristics that would allow to easily define environment specific
> defaults.list. The configuration file is simple and short.
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30214
> 
> GIO gdesktopappinfo.c will implement loading different resources on
> different desktops, which will allow to use gnome-defaults.list and
> kde-defaults.list.
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630171

I don't understand this; we don't use defaults.list in KDE, and it's not part 
of any spec, is it?

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Sponsored by Nokia to work on KDE, incl. Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org).