Re: [Fwd: How to tell that control is available for gnome-2 but not for gnome-1]

[David Emory Watson <dwatson cs ucr edu>]

This is a problem even in cases where there is no version 1 vs. version
2 conflict.

Perhaps we can always default to launching an application when there is
no viewer...

On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 11:34, Michael Meeks wrote:
> This question, is perhaps better asked here.
> 
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> From: hellan acm org
> To: gnome-components-list gnome org
> Subject: How to tell that control is available for gnome-2 but not for gnome-1
> Date: 21 May 2002 10:23:17 +0200
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just noticed that we have inadvertently broken Nautilus-1 support
> for Gnumeric.
> 
> The gnome-2 version of Gnumeric has a Bonobo control, but the gnome-1
> version doesn't.
> 
> Exhilirated over the new control, we registered 
> 	default_action_type=component
> for application/gnumeric in gnome-vfs.keys in gnome-mime-data.
> 
> Bad idea.
> 
> gnome-mime-data is shared between gnome-1 and gnome-2, so if I click a
> gnumeric spreadsheet in Nautilus 1, I get 'Nautilus has no viewer
> capable of displaying "/home/jk/timeliste.gnumeric"'.
> 
> What can we do instead?
> 
> We want to express the fact that there is a gnome-2 control capable of
> displaying gnumeric spreadsheets, but none for gnome-1.
> 
> For the gnome-1 case, we want Nautilus to fall back to using the
> application. 
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> What we want to happen is this:
> 
> bonobo-2 client (e.g. Nautilus) with gnome-2 Gnumeric installed:
>    Use control.
> 
> All other combinations:
>    Use application.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Jon Kåre
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