[openbeos] Re: Expander's behaviour (was: unrar)

"Jonas Sundström" <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 ...
> "Simple" approach:
> Create zipfs, tarfs, etc. Create glue application called 
> MountArchive. 
> Set it as the Preferred Application of zip, tar, etc. This app would 
> handle opening/mounting/showing in Tracker. (well, mounting primarily 
> -
> - It's so simple my glue app ZooKeeper could do it.)

Clarification:

The glue application ("MountArchive" or whatever) would exist only to 
handle the opening of files. It would have no user interface, and it 
wouldn't take any command-line arguments. It would act upon the 
B_REFS_RECEIVED message, mount each supported archive and then exit.

For the record, I prefer the second, combined approach. It's more 
clean, no glue app laying around (seemingly without purpose), and it's 
nicer/more logical being able to set "zipfs", "tarfs", etc as the 
Preferred Application of each individual filetype, instead of having 
"MountArchive" be the Preferred Application of all of them.

/Jonas Sundström.                 www.kirilla.com

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