On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:16:05AM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > Axel Thimm wrote: > >> Maybe xdg-open needs two modes, read-only and editing? Add a third one as "ask user which one of the N editors/viewers to use, if there are more than one registered" (e.g. not only the preferred one, see also below). > I'd argue this is a problem better solved one level higher, via > mimetypes (somehow). You mean that apps register as png/viewer-only and png/editor for example? Actually mimetypes are for describing the data only, so the extra information for the applications ability to view/edit would have to be encoded differently. But still if a file browser just sees some file (say a png file) and one double clicks on it, if it just starts xdg-open it will not be able to pass on what the user wants to do, view or edit. Windows (TM) seems to have a default of "open as in viewing" and a non-default (with Shift?) as "open as in editing". I think there is even an "ask the user which ones of the 100 png viewer to use". Anyone know how OS X solves this? -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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