Re: Libole2.

[Mathieu Lacage <lacage email enst fr>]

Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com> writes:

> * When you view a location in Nautilus (and we want to be able to
> manipulate and link to sub-file objects, so if I have something
> embedded in my spreadsheet I can link to that in my homedir for
> instance), Nautilus determines the mime type, looks at the URI
> protocol, and does an OAF query to determine the applicable
> objects. It lets you select from them with the "View as" menu, picking
> a default from user preferences and pruning the list using
> preferences. If the location happens to be pointing to an embedded
> subdocument rather than a "file", I want to be able to handle it as
> close to the same way as possible. So basically I need to be able to
> get the raw data the location (whether it is a moniker or a URI,
> whatever) and be able to choose myself what component can handle that
> data.
> 
> * You should be able to configure what component gets used when you
> get an email attachment in Evolution. Maybe it would also be useful to
> be able to change this choice on the fly.
> 
> 
> * In a compound document application, you may want to keep an element
> with the same data but handle it with a different component, in a
> response to a change in user preferences.
> 
> * I am not quite sure how much this one applies. In a compund
> document application, when you paste data out of another application
> you may want to use a different component to handle it than the
> original app did.


My beautiful design (*grin*) as explained in previous mail seems to solve 
these problems or have I missed something ?

/me waits for flames

Mathieu

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