On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 04:57:06PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 09:46:15AM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > > Patrice Dumas wrote: > >> > >> I am not sure that it covers what is wanted here. With xdg-open, it is > >> likely that on text an editor is opened, but it could also be a viewer. > >> For the diff I don't know. But for directory browsing, I am not sure > >> that it will work, on my system, it uses kdesvn because it registered > >> MimeType=inode/directory; > >> > >> Maybe it is just that inode/directory should be reserved for directory > >> browsers, and text for editors and not viewers. > > > > Correct, use of any sort of "default" app, assumes that mimetypes for > > the opened targets are configured properly. > > But for text, you cannot know if a viewer or an editor is the right one. > The most common mimetype seems to be text/plain and it cannot convey > this information. I think that in the mailcap format there was such a > distinction possible, but I am not sure that it exists for freedesktop > stuff. > > Regarding the inode/directory mimetype, it isn't obvious that kdesvn > isn't right. Point is that here there is an action that is wanted in > addition to a object type, and xdg-open can only do the somewhat fuzzy > action of 'opening'. Maybe we don't need more and consider that the action > really associated with opening is in fact set by the application we > choose to associate with the mimetype. Put more clearly if we want that > 'opening' a text/plain file stands for 'editing' a text/plain file we > should just make sure that all the apps associated with text/plain are > editors and not viewers. xdg-open seems to be geared towards reading/viewing instead of editing. At least the documenation stated for example that xdg-open /tmp/foobar.png Opens the PNG image file /tmp/foobar.png in the user's default image viewing application. E.g. it would probably not open in gimp, but in some lightweight png viewer. Maybe xdg-open needs two modes, read-only and editing? -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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