Preference Opening Specification

[Mattias Andrée]

Okay, so it is not fatal. But why do you need it?
I think it is important not to introduce a bunch of
standards just for completeness's sake, only if they
are actually needed.

On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 00:57:36 +0100
Corentin Noël <corentin at elementaryos.org> wrote:

> 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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