From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 14110@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14110: 24.3.50; Add command to open files outside of Emacs (use xdg-open, open etc)
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:28:01 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878v4x1sme.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83li8yf98m.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:20:41 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 23:22:37 +0530
>> Cc: 14110@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> The alist is already maintained by the user's desktop (likely via
>> Explore->`Open with' -> `Always use this application for these files').
>> Emacs should at no point in time have any knowledge of this association.
>
> Emacs can easily know about the associations, at least on Windows.
On my Debian/Squeeze, this is what I have ended up with.
,----
| $ xdg-mime query filetype images/vanilla-emacs.png
| image/png; charset=binary
`----
,----
| $ xdg-mime query default image/png
| gimp.desktop
`----
,----
| $ dpkg -L gimp | grep desktop
| /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/file-desktop-link
| /usr/share/applications/gimp.desktop
`----
,----
| $ cat /usr/share/applications/gimp.desktop | grep Exec
| Exec=gimp-2.6 %U
| TryExec=gimp-2.6
`----
,----
| $ gimp-
| gimp-2.6 gimp-console gimp-console-2.6
`----
There should be a way to go directly from *.desktop file to Exec entry.
I haven't figured it out or it is in the works.
Surprisingly, the above sequence fails for ODT files.
,----
| $ xdg-mime query filetype book.odt
| application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text; charset=binary
`----
,----
| $ xdg-mime query default application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text
| <NOTHING WHATSOEVER>
`----
I believe xdg-stuff is in it's initial stages and not so reliable at
this moment.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-05 4:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-01 6:57 bug#14110: 24.3.50; Add command to open files outside of Emacs (use xdg-open, open etc) Jambunathan K
2002-01-01 0:28 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-01 7:42 ` Leo Liu
2013-04-01 8:06 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-01 13:31 ` Leo Liu
2013-04-01 20:23 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-04 1:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-04 3:25 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-04 12:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-04 14:34 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-04 16:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-04 17:52 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-04 18:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-05 4:58 ` Jambunathan K [this message]
2013-04-05 6:03 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2013-04-10 4:30 ` Jambunathan K
2013-04-10 5:39 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2013-04-05 6:53 ` Leo Liu
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