mime apps specification

[Luc Menut]

Le 03/04/2014 10:31, David Faure a écrit :
> On Thursday 03 April 2014 01:39:27 Luc Menut wrote:
>> The previous freedesktop specification was
>> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/mime-actions-spec
>> I guess it will be deprecated by the current proposal.
>
> Yes. That wasn't even a spec, just a current state of affairs :)
> As soon as I push the spec I'll update that wiki page to point to the spec.
>
>> 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.
>
> Yes.
>
>> But at which level? "application vendors" (= $XDG_DATA_HOME/applications)?
>
> No. Application here means ISVs. E.g. if a third-party application like Skype,
> Google Earth, etc. absolutely wants to make itself default upon installation.
>
> The recommended location for the initial kde-mimeapps.list and gnome-
> mimeapps.list provided by the distribution (or by kde/gnome themselves when
> compiling from source) is $XDG_DATA_DIRS/applications/$xdc-mimeapps.list

OK, thanks for the clarification.

>
>> The proposed lookup order = preferences order is
>> users > sys-admin > vendors > distribution
>
> Depends what you mean by vendor. If you mean KDE, it's part of the
> distribution. If you mean Skype, it's at the same level as sysadmins.

OK

>
>> If desktop environments install their default preferences
>> ($xdc-mimeapps.list) at vendors level, desktop environments preferences
>> will override distribution preferences (when they overlap).
>
> No, distributions will adjust the desktop environment preferences.
>
>> 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?
>
> Yes. Is there a strong need to keep the "upstream mimeapps.list" unchanged? It
> just seems to add yet another level in the list, which is already quite big.
>

You are right, this looks good.
Thanks

regards,
Luc

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