Widgetizing Appfinder

[edscott wilson garcia]

El sáb, 22-01-2005 a las 16:14 -0500, Erik Harrison escribió:
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:23:52 +0100, Eduard Roccatello <eduard at xfce.org> wrote:
> > Hello Folks!!! ;-)
> > 
> > I'm porting Appfinder to a widget to make it more reusable than in the
> > past. After this step we should move the widget to libxfce4util to make
> > it useful for other modules.
> > 
> > Some examples:
> > - Panel may use appfinder widget to add new launchers
> > - Menueditor may use appfinder to add launchers to the xfdesktop menu
> > - Xfrun may use it for application harvesting
> > - XfDesktop may use it for add launcher to the desktop.
> > - As the code improves, Xffm could use it as "Open with.." feature
> 
> The "Open with . . ." feature I find to be the most compelling reason.
> Don't .desktop files include MIME types that an App can handle? It'd
> be nice to offer "suggested" apps to open a double clicked file
> 

It would be great if we could harvest mime-type applications using the
appfinder. Currently the suggestions have to be added to
libxfcegui4/xfce4-modules/mime/applications.xml or initially suggested
by the user. I think it would be cool if this harvesting is initiated
with a cache regeneration criteria mechanism, and executed in the
background at low priority so it will go unnoticed. In that fashion, the
extra "open with" suggestions would be ready on demand.


regards,

Edscott  


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edscott wilson garcia <edscott at xfce.org>