Preferred Applications Framework

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 22:12:26 +0100
Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
> Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> > Hey Benny,
> > 
> > I've been using the framework for a few days now and I'm quite
> > exited. Anyway, I think there's one application type missing in the
> > list: the favorite editor. Would be nice if we could add it as well
> > since there are a lot of applications which ask you for your
> > favorite editor, so you could just type exo-open wherever this is
> > the case.
> 
> If you want to limit yourself to Thunar, you can also run "Thunar
> /path/to/file" - once I committed the latest changes :-) - and Thunar
> will take care to run your preferred application for the given mime
> type.
> 
> The idea is to use this as a fallback for exo_url_show(), so you'll be
> able to pass every kind of file to exo-open, and it'll take care of it
> (falling back to the file manager).
> 
> I don't think it's necessary to add another category, esp. since you
> may want to open different text files using different editors (i.e.
> user joe might want to open .c/.h with Anjuta and .html/.xhtml with
> Bluefish).

That's true, of course. Being able to pass any file/URL over to exo-open
is great, so there's no need for another option in the application
framework. I can understand that URLs/eMails require a separate
configuration, because they can't be mapped to a MIME type in a file
manager.

- Jannis
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