Re: use system-wide filetype scheme

On Sun, 27 May 2012 12:49:21 +1000
<tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There could be another action, but from FDO ML chatter, it's probably better 
> thought of as file.<applications> or something, as it would be based on a 
> collation of data from .desktop files, only partly and loosely related to 
> mimetype. Somebody is working on a revised library, and command, to produce 
> this sort of data. Who knows when it will be complete and released and widely 
> available.
> 
> If there were a new action, then you choose - show it or not in the context 
> menu, and if so, before or after file.<actions> or somewhere else, not 
> type-specific positioning.

Svn code now includes an action named file.<handlers>, intended for the 
filelist context menu. The action merely includes in the menu items which were 
formerly included as part of file.<actions>. Specifically:
 * for a non-executable item  - the default 'handler' reported by xdg-mime, and
 * for an executable item - any commands/actions listed in the corresponding 
.desktop file (if any).

If or when there's a reasonably practical mechanism for detecting 
non-executable-handlers other than the default, that can be dropped in easily.

Regards
Tom


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