Re: Desktop integration

["John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp martianrock com>]

On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 19:19, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 07:05:02PM -0400, Havoc Pennington was heard to remark:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This is probably best done under the heading of "MIME system" (what's
> > now the "preferred applications" dialog in GNOME should be folded in
> > there too). Some slow progress here on xdg-list etc.
> 
> Well, I'll cross-post to there, but ... unless you correct me, this is
> not just the mime-types issue.  In the editor example, I want my app
> to get the results *back* from the 'prefered editor'.  Its not enough 
> to know the prefered app; one needs some actual interfaces into it as
> well.
> 
> --linas

You might want to see how Anjuta 2 handles this.  I think they use CORBA
to communicate with either Vi or Gedit.  I used the feature once where
you can select an editor to edit the source code in and after saving it
would reload in the main editor window.

--
J5