mime apps specification

[Jasper St. Pierre]

Why do browsers want to be the default? For what MIME types?


On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Jerome Leclanche <adys.wh at gmail.com> wrote:

> For what it's worth, I agree. However the use case of browsers asking
> to be default has to be taken into account, and we are very far from
> being able to offer them an api to *properly* become so.
> J. Leclanche
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre at mecheye.net>
> wrote:
> > No idea how "DPNH" got there. Cat on a keyboard or something.
> >
> > RealPlayer was an app known for making terrible forceful customizations
> to
> > the user's system on Windows. If you deleted the Start Menu, Desktop, or
> > Quick Launch shortcut and ran RealPlayer, it would notice and re-add all
> the
> > shortcuts. If it wasn't the default MIME handler, it would silently
> > reregister itself for all media types it supported.
> >
> > Having an official way to do this is a way to tell ISVs that they
> *should*
> > do this, that it's recommended practice if you have an app that handles a
> > MIME type. Apps that want to force their way into the user's
> customizations
> > are RealPlayer, and we should let them feel shameful hacking up
> > /usr/share/applications/mimeapps.list on install, and bare the
> > responsibility if it breaks, not give them an API for it.
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 5:12 AM, David Faure <faure at kde.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Friday 04 April 2014 16:54:01 Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> >> > > 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.
> >> >
> >> > This seems like a poor choice to me. Do we have any use cases for
> this?
> >> > It
> >> > seems to me like this would be giving the app the RealPlayer API,
> which
> >> > is
> >> > not something I'm comfortable doing. DPNH
> >>
> >> I don't understand the relation to RealPlayer or "DPNH",
> >> but about the whole ISV idea is: since I suspect some apps will want to
> >> set
> >> themselves as default upon installation (even if we don't agree with
> it),
> >> we
> >> might as well provide a way to do this cleanly rather than seeing these
> >> apps
> >> hack into /usr/share/applications/mimeapps.list.
> >> In any case this is the same level as sysadmin customizations, so
> whether
> >> or
> >> not ISVs use it doesn't change anything to the spec.
> >>
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  Jasper
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