Re: konqueror's answer to the scripts folder?

[David Emory Watson <dwatson cs ucr edu>]

Hey Dave,

How will mime aware scripts be related to the context menu hooks that
others have discussed?

One problem is that many scripts will have a huge number of mime types
associated with them (e.g. tar, or "send this file").  So even if
scripts were mime aware, we would still need to offer the most common
actions on the top level of the context menu (i.e. not buried in the
scripts menu).

Anyhow, these two emails make for some interesting reading:

http://lists.eazel.com/pipermail/nautilus-list/2001-October/005839.html

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2001-October/msg00436.html

 - dew

On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 11:04, Dave Camp wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 10:59, Ryan Muldoon wrote:
> > I saw this today - it is a way to add arbitrary actions to a given
> > mimetype for konqueror.  The big design win here is that they can
> > restrict the listing by what MIME type the file is, so the list of
> > actions isn't too long.  This would be a nice improvement on the scripts
> > feature in Nautilus, I think.  Maybe for 2.2 if someone has time.
> > 
> > http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/dot/servicemenus.html
> 
> I'm playing with some enhancements to the scripts right now, mime type
> filtering is one of the things I plan on implementing.
> 
> -dave
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