EDIT: Int the above post, check the box means checks the always opens box? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cheers and Regards Jayesh Vinay Badwaik Electronics and Communication Engineering VNIT, INDIA - On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Jayesh Badwaik <jayesh.badwaik90@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > All the programs, mimeo, xdg-open are oriented towards using mime info > to open application. My problem is different. What I want is a way to > tell "my" desktop environment or whatever to use which applications. > > The main issue is as follows. Every program that gets installed can > do anything to the mimeinfo.list file. Sometimes, it will also change > the xdg-open values. There are multiple systems with multiple > standards. We cannot do much about that. However, what we can do is, > we can make it easy to create an interface to program that. > > My suggestions is as follows. > All file associations would be stored in a XML based file. There will > be other details in it. But the main details is as follows > 1. mime-type > 2. associated applications wuth priority starting from 1. Why exactly > one, will be clear later. > > Now whenever a new package is installed. It will contain an XML file > containing description of the mimetype in the same manner. When the > package is installed, the file will be transferred to a folder. The > main file which contains the descriptions of the mime type will be > somewhere else. This folder will contain the mime files which have not > yet been incorportated into the main file. > > Now, a program would run which will take this folder and the original > file as the default arguments and then update the file types. If there > is a conflict, especially if the priority of the application for the > mime type is already taken, then there can be a ncurses based > resolution window, letting window resolve the conflict (modeled on the > file association selectors in Windows applications). The priority in > the package files can be -1 if the file wants to go to the last > priority if possible. (like the nice factor of the processes) > > But no one can occupy the priority zero. Suppose a user opens an app > using open with command and then checks the box, then automatically an > entry is created in the folder with priority zero and then it is > updated. This way, automatic software will never trump the user set > defaults under any circumstances and the conflict management would > prevent the irritation at the file open time. I am sure people are > more careful during install than they are during file opening. > > Now the final XML file is created. This file can be then modified into > whatever is demanded by any DE etc etc. What do you think? > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Cheers and Regards > Jayesh Vinay Badwaik > Electronics and Communication Engineering > VNIT, INDIA > - > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 3:45 PM, SanskritFritz <sanskritfritz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Since mimeo also supports file uris now, there is no need to change >> this package anymore. >
