Preference Opening Specification

[Corentin Noël]

Le 16 janv. 2016 12:53 AM, "Mattias Andrée" <maandree at member.fsf.org> a
écrit :
>
> Why would this be useful? And what about when none of
> these are implemented, would that be a problem?

It's then the same problem as clicking on an URL when you don't have any
web browser. Nothing will happen, your users will complain as "not
working", but it the same if you hardcode things for unity-control-center
and you only have gnome-control-center installed.

>
> On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 00:28:37 +0100
> Corentin Noël <corentin at elementaryos.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> > Many desktop environments have their own System Settings
> > applications, but there is no clear way for developers to
> > call settings from within their applications  without
> > resorting to hardcoding in commands for each and every
> > Settings app. I propose a new specification that similar
> > to other scheme handling in Desktop files, through a new
> > settings:// URI. With this, developers could call on
> > Settings applications, without resorting to hardcoding,
> > provided a desktop environment supports it. For example,
> > an application calling settings://bluetooth would open
> > Bluetooth settings for a given desktop environment.
> >
> > Here is the specification I propose:
> >
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N0uqNtVXEFn3cLgNMeN75mP_dpMpCco-7uw5PKow-_Q/edit?usp=sharing
> >
> > I'm of course open to changes and feedbacks,
> > Corentin Noël
> > elementary OS Developer
>
>
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