El mar, 18-03-2008 a las 14:02 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero escribió: > Hi, > > Right now, the "Open with another application" dialog lives in > nautilus/libnautilus-private/nautilus-open-with-dialog.[ch]. This > dialog uses the machinery in GIO's GAppInfo to figure out which apps can > be used to open a file of a certain MIME-type. > > There's a long-standing annoyance in Firefox, where it implements "open > with" by starting a file chooser in /usr/bin. Now, if you complain > about the file chooser *right here* I will ignore your mail :) My point > is that it would be nice if the "open with" GUI were available to all > apps, not just Nautilus. > > We could do a few things: > > * Move nautilus-open-with-dialog.[ch] into GTK+. From a super-quick > read of the code, this uses no Nautilus-only stuff except for some of > libeel's convenience error dialogs, and some "the MIME info changed" > signal. > > * Leave the dialog in place inside Nautilus, and provide a D-Bus service > for the "open with" GUI. I'm 51% leaning towards this option, since > then this would have a chance of working with a desktop-specific GUI, > depending on your choice of desktop environment --- aside from promoting > the use of D-Bus for this kind of stuff. > > Thoughts? I think it's something many applications would use, Evince uses always the default app when opening document attachments because we thought it wasn't worth to implement the whole open with stuff. I think it's better to move the dialog to GTK+, since nautilus might not be always running. > Oh my god, this is a nice little project for the Summer of Code... it > would involve figuring out the above, and also changing Firefox to use > it :) > > Federico > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-devel-list mailing list > gtk-devel-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list -- Carlos Garcia Campos elkalmail yahoo es carlosgc gnome org http://carlosgc.linups.org PGP key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x523E6462
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