More about "intents": Several improvements to desktop files and caches

[Dominique Michel]

Le Mon, 6 Jan 2014 15:38:34 +0000,
Jerome Leclanche <adys.wh at gmail.com> a écrit :

> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 14:48 +0100, David Faure wrote:
> >> On Monday 06 January 2014 14:44:27 Bastien Nocera wrote:
> >> > On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 14:35 +0100, David Faure wrote:
> >> > > On Monday 06 January 2014 14:28:01 Bastien Nocera wrote:
> >> > > > And it's more about services (allow me to pick a photo, or
> >> > > > select a contact) than about full-fledged applications. A
> >> > > > terminal emulator can hardly be thought as providing a
> >> > > > service to other applications, a photo picker provided by
> >> > > > the native photo application would.
> >> > >
> >> > > My point is that both needs (i.e. use cases) exist.
> >> > >
> >> > > I know that "intents" and the use of dbus interfaces is about
> >> > > what you describe.
> >> > >
> >> > > I'm simply pointing out that the other use case (merely
> >> > > starting apps, at most with a url on the command line) exists
> >> > > too, and that I'd like to see a standard solution for it.
> >> >
> >> > The URL would/should have a mime-type associated to it, so you
> >> > can just lookup by mime-type.
> >>
> >> "at most" means "sometimes none".
> >>
> >> There's no URL and no mimetype involved when listing or starting
> >> - window managers
> >> - terminal emulators
> >
> > Those would be covered by the Implements changes documented by Ryan:
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73317
> >
> >> - instant messaging apps
> >
> > xmpp, and irc schemes at least, so those are covered by
> > x-scheme-handler/*
> >
> >> - email clients
> >
> > mailto scheme
> >
> 
> All these are not safe assumptions. Quassel, for example, does not
> support irc: uris.

Is it not the job of an application, or package manager, to
provide the right mimes type for the application?

If that mime type does not exist, it must be added.

Dominique 
> 
> J. Leclanche
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