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Re: Associating bundle directories with app
From: |
Niels Grewe |
Subject: |
Re: Associating bundle directories with app |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:27:04 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:05:05PM +0000, David Chisnall wrote:
> On 20 Jan 2011, at 13:42, Niels Grewe wrote:
>
> > Also, it is worth noting that there is a freedesktop.org spec
> > [0] for associating mime-types with applications. Maybe we should
> > consider supporting that as well [1] for people who occasionally use GNUstep
> > applications on their whatever-is-considered-fancy-this-week desktop.
>
> I think this would be a nice thing to support, but it's not clear to me from
> scanning the spec that it's possible to correctly handle bundles. It looks
> like you can define things for directories, or you can define things for
> files with a specific extension, but not for directories with a specific
> extension (although, like most fd.o 'standards' it's missing most of the
> explanation of how it works.
I thought one could do this by adding a glob-pattern to a subclass of
the built-in pseudo-type inode/directory but that does not seem to work.
Apparently nobody thought about the bundle approach to things when
designing that.
> I'm also not really sure how it will interoperate with UTIs. Maybe someone
> should poke fd.o to adopt UTIs, rather than MIME types, as the core
> representation, since they're more expressive...
UTIs are pretty smart. I'll check whether there are smart people
available at fd.o.
Cheers,
Niels
- Re: Associating bundle directories with app, (continued)
- Re: Associating bundle directories with app, Sebastian Reitenbach, 2011/01/20
- Re: Associating bundle directories with app, Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2011/01/20
- Re: Associating bundle directories with app, David Chisnall, 2011/01/20
- Re: Associating bundle directories with app, Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2011/01/20
- Re: Associating bundle directories with app, Niels Grewe, 2011/01/21
- Re: Associating bundle directories with app, David Chisnall, 2011/01/21
- Re: Associating bundle directories with app,
Niels Grewe <=
- Re: Associating bundle directories with app, Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2011/01/21
- Re: Associating bundle directories with app, Niels Grewe, 2011/01/21
- Global Defaults (Re: Associating bundle directories with app), David Chisnall, 2011/01/21
- Re: Global Defaults (Re: Associating bundle directories with app), Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2011/01/21
- Re: Global Defaults (Re: Associating bundle directories with app), Stefan Bidi, 2011/01/21
- Re: Global Defaults (Re: Associating bundle directories with app), David Chisnall, 2011/01/21
- Re: Global Defaults (Re: Associating bundle directories with app), Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2011/01/21
- Re: Associating bundle directories with app, SPUeNTRUP - Kai Henningsen, 2011/01/21
- Re: Associating bundle directories with app, Riccardo Mottola, 2011/01/21
- Re: Associating bundle directories with app, Riccardo Mottola, 2011/01/21