Re: Add to Library Support for F-spot and Banshee

[D Bera <dbera web gmail com>]

> Instead of "Add to Rhythmbox" or "Add to Banshee", you could do "Add to
> music player" or something similar. Same thing goes for your photo
> management application, i.e. "Add to photo manager". You could also take
> the name of the default app and put it in the menu item name. So, if
> Rhythmbox is your default music player, the menu item would say "Add to
> Rhythmbox".
>
> It would be nice if the default application of a certain type was
> handled by the desktop environment, but if not, it can be a preference
> in Beagle.

The specification for the default application for any (mime)type is currently 
being worked on by the freedesktop people. (There is a link somewhere, I 
couldn't look it up quickly). Before it is standardized and implemented, 
there is little hope of finding out, in a cross DE way, the default 
application for any type.

Adding preferences to beagle would require another mimetype-application 
association to be maintained by beagle (the first being with the DE). Thats a 
scary thought.

- dBera

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