xdg-settings

[Nick Schermer]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Xfce crowd,
>
> I have installed Chromium (totally unrelated) and catched that it uses
> xdg-settings to check and switch the default web browser. It sounds
> interesting to use this tool for the preferred applications. Of course
> post 4.8, but it really sounds interesting... at first sight ;-)

I have some ideas to overhaul the exo-open/preferred apps/gio module
after 4.8 to make it work better in a number of ways. Could you open a
bug for the xdg-settings idea, definitely worth looking at.

Nick