On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 16:48 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote: > On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 11:17 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > > Ah yes, that was a conversation we had on the shuttle bus the other > > morning. Wouldn't it be awesome if during rpm build time, .desktop > > files were processed for Application provides of a generic enough > > type, > > as well as what mime types said application handled? Then we could do > > great things like expose listings of applications, with sub-listings > > of > > optional providers of said applications, instead of showing people > > hard > > to understand upstream project names by default. Also, when you try > > to > > open a file of an unhandled mime type, we could ask PackageKit to show > > me the options for handling this mime type... > > Already exists. Just run pk-import-desktop - this just has to be hooked > up to koji or something. As much as I like PK for solving some problems, do we really need to have the Fedora build system depend on it? I can't imagine that writing the above directly using yum APIs would be that much work, no? -- James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
