On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 01:43, Sean Middleditch wrote: > > Heya everyone... > > Assuming that the URL handler configuration is going to stay in GNOME > (for the various URL types, like SMB and mailto and such), the > configuration is a pain for the average user. > > What I was thinking was that applications could set (in some kind of > database - most likely gconf) a set of type/name/command settings. > I.e., Evolution would have, for URL type "mailto", an entry with name > "Evolution" and command "evolution '%s'". > > Now, in the URL configurator, for each URL type, there would be a drop > down box containing all the registered apps (plus one entry for custom, > along with a blank line, or also None). Thus, if I had Balsa, > Evolution, Althea, etc. installed, I could go to the CC and just select > "Balsa", instead of typing in a command string (which is mean to ask of > newbies/idiots). This sounds like what I implemented. The only trouble is that there does not appear to be a way to retrieve all of the apps from the gnome-vfs app database, so some additional metadata will be required for this to work. > And then, to make life even easier for said idiots, apps like Evolution > could pull the Windows "This application is not the default..." messages > (just so long as they have a "do not bother me with this crap again" > checkbox), so that a newbie user who installs Evolution on their machine > after using, say, Mozilla for while, and runs Evolution, can > automatically get it setup as their default. > > And, of course, Evolution and others should have some > button/checkbox/whatever in their config windows to set the app as the > default, and/or enter the URL configuration handler (so the user can get > to it from a sane/easy-to-remember place). > > There might be an advantage in using text files over gconf for this in > that OS packages can drop files for their supporting MIME types with > command in, for example, /etc/gnome/url.d/foobar. Of course, I suppose > gconf2 will have a nice enough command-line program for the apps to do > it that way... > > Anyways, just a suggestion I thought might make life easier for some. > I'm probably just being an idiot like usual, tho. But everyone here > should be used to how much of a moron I am. ^,^ > > Sean Etc. > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-devel-list mailing list > gnome-devel-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list -- ======================================================================== Bradford Hovinen Hacker http://primates.ximian.com/~hovinen/ Ximian Desktop team hovinen ximian com Ximian, Inc. Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That's why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that's why they write symphonies. - Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
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