Re: mc Digest, Vol 86, Issue 2

[chris glur <crglur gmail com>]

I'm not sure that I fuly understand the suggestion;
and `apropos xdg` shows nothing here,
but making `mc` the CENTER of one's computing makes good sense.
The traditional way of relying on monster apps. like univeral
browser/mailer/news..etc. is inferior to the object-oriented
approach, of making you DATA/files the center.

The applications will be replaced in time, but your DATA is the valuable
stuff which lasts forever.

So, by taking you dir-tree as the center [which mc handles so well],
you have nodes/sub-dirs for each project.
A typical project might entail: email, USEnet articles, efax, *.pdf,
htm-articles ..etc.  Different apps will fetch the data/s. But the
data/s for the particular project a centralised.

That's why I need insight to make a table of:
<path which is open with mc> = <Desktop,VT>  eg.
/mnt/p11/legal/fish/med = 3,4
 shows that when an item for fish-medicine arrives, I should just switch
to desktop3, VT4, instead of searching or opening a new `mc`.

I made an app for old knl 2,4 Mandrake to show me this, which depended
on the fact the Mandrake's `pstree-p` showed the VT's grouped under their
Desktop.  Now I'm using slak13 + xfce and I can't use my previous app.

== Chris Glur.



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> Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 19:26:39 +0300
> From: Sergiy Kukunin <sergey kukunin gmail com>
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> Hello. MC has built-in default application manager in .mc/bindings file. It
> is cool, and I want use it for all applications ( browser, pidgin, skype etc
> ). All of that applications uses xdg-open for opening file in application,
> whic is simple bash script. I can replace xdg-open with something similar:
> 'mc -a $@' and mc determines and starts application for this file.
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> Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 22:27:10 +0200
> From: "Yury V. Zaytsev" <yury shurup com>
> To: Sergiy Kukunin <sergey kukunin gmail com>
> Cc: mc gnome org
> Subject: Re: Open files with application
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> On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 19:26 +0300, Sergiy Kukunin wrote:
> > Hello. MC has built-in default application manager in .mc/bindings
> > file. It is cool, and I want use it for all applications ( browser,
> > pidgin, skype etc ). All of that applications uses xdg-open for
> > opening file in application, whic is simple bash script. I can replace
> > xdg-open with something similar: 'mc -a $@' and mc determines and
> > starts application for this file.
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> Is this a question or a statement?
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> If it is a question, then I believe it is ill-posed. We actually would
> like to modify the built-in mechanism to make it more of a mailcap
> parser with few very specific overrides, instead of making it even more
> elaborated.
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> There are many problems with the current implementation. For instance,
> it is not possible to extend the defaults, only override the whole file.
> A variation of this problem causes issues upon upgrades.
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> All in all this ended up a NIH re-implementation of mailcap which causes
> duplication of the configuration and doesn't bear substantial
> advantages.
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> So if this is in fact a statement, we would rather appreciate help with
> re-doing it, instead of making it even more elaborate and increase
> duplication.
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> --
> Sincerely yours,
> Yury V. Zaytsev
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