On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 09:59:41PM +0300, Axel Thimm wrote: > 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? BTW looks like gnome has this already sorted out: http://developer.gnome.org/doc/whitepapers/SystemConfig/mime-info.html applications register with two different keys: view/open. There are even fm-view/fm-open for file managers and even a convert-to-ascii variant. Maybe xgd has similar functionality? -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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