Re: [Utopia] Re: Gnome Volume Mgr ==> Gnome Hardware Mgr ??

[Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>]

Hi,

On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 11:17 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> This makes so much sense to me. Btw, this weekend at the GNOME Summit I
> was talking to Kevin Otte of KDE Volume Manager fame about working on a
> spec for the "Applications instead commands" thing mentioned here
> 
>  http://blog.fubar.dk/?p=29
> 
> It would be awesome to get rid of the commandline bits from g-v-m.

Really, I think it should be "actions" instead of "applications" or
"commands."  You want to be able to open different applications
differently depending on what action is to take place.  Making this more
generic would help for things outside of g-v-m, like Beagle, where we
want to be able to do different actions but possibly with the same
application.

There is a spec to this effect on fdo, but I haven't studied it in any
detail:

http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fmime_2dactions_2dspec

Joe