Re: Preferred Applications applet roadmap

[Luca Cavalli <luca cavalli gmail com>]

On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 13:30 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 11:33 +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> > Le mardi 05 septembre 2006 à 22:32 +0200, Luca Cavalli a écrit :
> > 
> > > What do you think about this further change at the light of the future
> > > applets merging? This should let us extend the applet easily (just
> > > create a new widget instance, filling it with some .desktop files and a
> > > couple of gconf entries lists). We will also be able to handle new apps
> > > without any effort, given that they will provide an appropriate .desktop
> > > file.
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > That looks like a good plan. Do you plan to list some other preferred
> > applications too for next cyle (like "music player", "video player",
> > etc)?
> > 
> yeah, we should look at what apps other apps launch and add them to the
> preferred apps capplet. Anything apart from:
> 
> - music player
> - video player
> - photo management (gnome-volume-manager could use it)
> - video editor (g-v-m)
> 
> ?
> 
> I guess g-v-properties could just get the default app from the capplet
> and offer also the option to enter a command, as it does now.

Hi,
sorry answering only now, but I was in London for a few days. There was
a starting discussion about that in bug #171872[1] (see also attachment
from comment #8[2]). With the new widget (which I already started
writing, even if at the moment just draw itself :) it would be easy to
have a signal emitted when a new app is chosen, the capplet will have to
grab that signal and then set mime types handler as appropriate. We just
have to pay attention to integrate it in a clean way with
gnome-volume-manager (or whatever will be its new name) and the "Open
with..." in Nautilus.
Ciao,

Luca


[1] - http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171872
[2] - http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=53615&action=view