[Thunar-dev] wiki and mime actions

[Benedikt Meurer]

Jaap Karssenberg wrote:
> Good afternoon,
> 
> Two questions this time, the first very practical: could you give me
> a login for the wiki, I would like to fix the url for the daily
> patches and maybe organise a little bit there; maybe summerize some
> discussions from the list.

Done.

> Second question more technical: what mechanism is planned to
> determine which application can open files of a certain mime type?
> The mime-actions-spec at freedesktop is pretty immature and I doubt
> very much that you want to copy rox here. I see that there is code in
> exo to use the xdg mime database, which is of course the freedesktop
> approved way to go, so I suppose for mime action you would do
> something xdg compatible ... just makes me wonder after all the
> discussions this subject caused on the xdg mailing lists.

We use the quasi-standard mechanism introduced by Nautilus: .desktop 
files contain information about the MIME types supported by a given 
application.

> -- Pardus

Benedikt