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Re: Associating bundle directories with app
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Richard Frith-Macdonald |
Subject: |
Re: Associating bundle directories with app |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:14:01 +0000 |
On 20 Jan 2011, at 13:42, Niels Grewe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:08:55AM +0100, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote:
>> With the make_services available right_now, it has to be run as the user,
>> since the cache used is stored in the users GNUstep directory in the
>> .GNUstepServices file.
>>
>> Maybe it would make sense to have a global services cache, in some shared
>> accessible directory. So for me as a packager, I could run make_services as
>> a
>> post (un)install script, when installing a package. So it would update the
>> services database everytime a gnustep application is (un)installed.
>
> I think it would be a good idea to have a kind of system wide (or per
> installation domain?) mechanism for storing settings.
We already do (for user defaults).
> This probably
> should not only include the .GNUstepServices and .GNUStepAppList files
> but also the user-defaults database.
We have system-wide user defaults settings.
We don't have system-wide app/service caches because (as mentioned earlier in
this thread), there's no point, apart from some potential performance gain.
> If I'm not mistaken, people are
> routinely having trouble to set the right NSFont for their backend
> because the packager cannot do it for them.
This is a user default setting ... so the packager can set that for them.
> Also, it is worth noting that there is a freedesktop.org spec
> [0] for associating mime-types with applications. Maybe we should
> consider supporting that as well [1] for people who occasionally use GNUstep
> applications on their whatever-is-considered-fancy-this-week desktop.
That sound like a reasonable addition.
- Re: Associating bundle directories with app, (continued)
- Re: Associating bundle directories with app, Sebastian Reitenbach, 2011/01/20
- Re: Associating bundle directories with app, Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2011/01/20
- Re: Associating bundle directories with app, David Chisnall, 2011/01/20
- Re: Associating bundle directories with app, Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2011/01/20
- Re: Associating bundle directories with app, Niels Grewe, 2011/01/21
- Re: Associating bundle directories with app, David Chisnall, 2011/01/21
- Re: Associating bundle directories with app, Niels Grewe, 2011/01/21
- Re: Associating bundle directories with app,
Richard Frith-Macdonald <=
- Re: Associating bundle directories with app, Niels Grewe, 2011/01/21
- Global Defaults (Re: Associating bundle directories with app), David Chisnall, 2011/01/21
- Re: Global Defaults (Re: Associating bundle directories with app), Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2011/01/21
- Re: Global Defaults (Re: Associating bundle directories with app), Stefan Bidi, 2011/01/21
- Re: Global Defaults (Re: Associating bundle directories with app), David Chisnall, 2011/01/21
- Re: Global Defaults (Re: Associating bundle directories with app), Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2011/01/21
- Re: Associating bundle directories with app, SPUeNTRUP - Kai Henningsen, 2011/01/21
- Re: Associating bundle directories with app, Riccardo Mottola, 2011/01/21
- Re: Associating bundle directories with app, Riccardo Mottola, 2011/01/21