Taking over xdg-utils

[Marc Boocha]

On Sunday, 30 August, 2020 2:53:37 AM IST Piotr Karbowski wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> On 26/08/2020 09.27, Simon Lees wrote:
> > I am also interested in this, there are simply to many bugs related to
> > shell quoting behavior etc that break something else when they get
> > fixed. Unfortunately I have been moved into a different team at work for
> > the next few months and don't have alot of time atm.
> > 
> > When I did some initial research into the idea I planned to split the
> > mime stuff out of pyxdg into a python-mime library and use that as well
> > as creating a separate python library for things like
> > desktop_file_to_binary etc Unfortunately I didn't get past the design
> > stage.
> > 
> > While I don't have much time in the next 6 months once you upload the
> > code i'll happily review it and help test it on openSUSE.
> 
> Will post to list with link to repository once at least basic feature
> parity with current xdg-utils is achieved.
> 
> My goal is to create a drop-in replacement for xdg-utils, while greatly
> simplifying the logic. For example, xdg-open uses xdg-mime, and xdg-mime
> have whole logic to choose what tool it should use to query for
> mimetype, if there's kde, it will use kmimetypefinder, if there's gnome
> it will use gio and fallback to gvfs-info, if it fail to detect DE, it
> will use mimeinfo written in Perl instead.
> 
> For this route the new xdg-mime will just use python-magic (bindings to
> libmagic) regardless of what DE is running, as I really see no benefit
> in using DE specific tools to query for mime, it will only result in
> fragmentation and issues with reproducing bugs, as there's multiple code
> paths.

I will kill DE specific code paths. Also Any reference to kde4 and gnome2 
should be killed. Just one extra code path I will put, will be portals.
 
> After you mentioned pyxdg I looked into it, from what I see it uses
> rox-lib2's mime.py to query shared-mime-datebase, but in this case, I
> think I will just stick to python-magic (libmagic) instead, as it seems
> to be widely used already in other projects.
> 
> If you have any other suggestions, comments or information, please let
> me know, I plan to have a working PoC within few weeks (by working I
> mean something that will work on my Gentoo for daily usage. :))
> 
> -- Piotr.
> 
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