mime apps specification

[Jerome Leclanche]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 12:39 AM, Luc Menut <lmenut at free.fr> wrote:
> Le 02/04/2014 17:06, David Faure a écrit :
>
>> After so many years, he's finally a proposal for a unified mechanism for
>> selecting the default application for a given mimetype.
>>
>> The mechanism is unified, but note that it supports different defaults for
>> different desktop environments, if so desired.
>>
>> This is the result of a discussion with Ryan Lortie, Alex Larsson and
>> myself,
>> I'm sending it here for further comments before pushing it to the git
>> repo.
>>
>>
>
> Great work. Many thanks, it's really nice to see improvements and
> standardization on this.
>
> I have some questions about this specification proposal.
>
> The previous freedesktop specification was
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/mime-actions-spec
> I guess it will be deprecated by the current proposal.
>
> What about KDE's InitialPreference and Gnome's defaults.list?
> IIUC, I guess that they are deprecated too, and will be respectively
> replaced by kde-mimeapps.list and gnome-mimeapps.list.
> But at which level? "application vendors" (= $XDG_DATA_HOME/applications)?

We were going to include defaults.list in the spec, but we decided to
just ignore it. GNOME will still be reading it as fallback but it will
be deprecated.

>
> The proposed lookup order = preferences order is
> users > sys-admin > vendors > distribution
>
> If desktop environments install their default preferences
> ($xdc-mimeapps.list) at vendors level, desktop environments preferences will
> override distribution preferences (when they overlap).
>
> Then, if a distribution wants to modify a desktop environment preference for
> a mimetype, the only way seems to patch the desktop environment
> $xdc-mimeapps.list? or have I missed something?

I think you're correct. It's 6am though so I can hardly say "I think",
but it seems acceptable to me.

>
>
> regards,
> Luc
>
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J. Leclanche