From: George De B. <Sou...@my...> - 2002-10-28 04:48:27
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On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 12:12:35 +0100 Thomas Leonard <ta...@ec...> wrote: > I think freedesktop.org is interested in standardising the run actions > between all programs, but that's a long term goal. You could set up a > default handler for each media type (eg, 'All text/* files', 'All image/* > files', etc) which uses the mailcap file... Actually, this is where I want to head with my applications eventually... Basically, have each of the application become it's own object. A binding database would link document types and application actions. For any given document, the application would know how to look up the acceptable actions and pass it to the application. Of course, I am nowhere near to even starting on this yet... I have to just get the project started and get the base (extremely simple) applications comitted. (Which I am actually getting closer on, just been delayed between being sick and working overtime...<sigh>) // George |