Cleaning up "Preferred Applications" & Desktop Consistency
Jonathan Blandford
jrb at redhat.com
Wed Dec 31 07:01:26 UTC 2003
Havoc Pennington <hp at redhat.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Couple high level points:
>
> - consider posting this sort of thing to fedora-desktop-list in future
> - jrb is currently redoing the MIME UI using a
> freedesktop.org backend; don't know if this also covers
> "preferred applications" but it probably should
We've gone back and forth on this on the GNOME/freedesktop lists, and
the consensus is that things like preferred applications really isn't
part of the MIME system.
> On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 07:21, Warren Togami wrote:
> > This means that choosing Links in the chooser as a default browser is
> > currently broken due to setting the wrong key name. However I have yet
> > to find a program that actually honors the need-terminal key...
>
> need_terminal is kind of a relic from the days when something like links
> would appear in the desktop menus....
We should still support it.
> > I propose that we use desktop-agnostic-easy-install definitions for
> > Preferred Applications. We should standardize on a directory named
> > something like /etc/sysconfig/preferred/browser.d within which each
> > package can easily drop definition files.
>
> Rather than this, we might find some way to simply use the .desktop
> files the apps already install; I don't know if the fd.org mime spec
> does this or not. Though I do have some misgivings about overloading
> .desktop files for more than just menu entries.
.desktop files are very overloaded anyway. What's another use or two.
But generating the list of terminals/web browsers/mail clients by
querying the desktop files makes some sense to me.
> If we need command line access to preferred apps, something more general
> like "preferred-open html arg1 arg2 arg3" perhaps. In fact there may
> already be a gnome-vfs-open.
gnome-vfs-open is a little bit different -- it won't work for
terminals/mail clients. A preferred-open app makes a little more sense.
> > Windows-like behavior, and there is the option to change all keybindings
> > to be Unix-like globally (where is this setting?).
>
> In .gtkrc-2.0 do gtk-key-theme = emacs.
Actually, it's cleaner to change your "Text editting shortcuts" in the
Keyboard Shortcuts dialog. This is GTK+ specific, though.
Thanks,
-Jonathan
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