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

[Jerome Leclanche]

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Dominique Michel
<dominique.michel at vtxnet.ch> wrote:
> 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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The association is irrelevant. Quassel does not support being given
irc uris. You're welcome to write a patch for every broken app,
though.

J. Leclanche