https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486193
Bug ID: 486193
Summary: Activity overrides for kde-open
Classification: Plasma
Product: kde-cli-tools
Version: 6.0.4
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: aleix...@kde.org
Reporter: gudvinr+...@gmail.com
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
Sometimes different workflows require different sets of applications that do
the same.
Probably notable example is web browser.
It's so notable that people create workarounds like activity aware firefox
(https://matija.suklje.name/introducing-activity-aware-firefox) to solve this
issue.
Possible use cases where differentiate by activity can help:
- work and personal e-mail, chat, browser apps
- guest workspace where browser and other apps have disabled history
- creation workspace open .STL in blender, production will use 3D printing
software
- dev workspace will open Kate, all other workspaces will use kwrite
- etc
De-facto standard of resolving URIs is xdg-open, which in turn runs kde-open in
case if it detects KDE.
Since KDE is in control of what's being opened when an app requests file
association, it is also possible to handle overrides in centralized way.
Thus, I'd suggest to add per-activity overrides for default apps:
- If user adds override for web browser in activity settings for activity A and
is currently using this activity, kde-open will resolve web browser to value
from this setting
- In any other case, e.g. if activity B has different override or doesn't have
an override at all, kde-open will either default value or corresponding
override
For current users and ones who don't need that nothing will change.
Potential downside is that KIO might have an additional dependency to access
activities, but since you can get current activity using d-bus I don't think
it's a huge dealbreaker.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.1.0
Qt Version: 6.7.0
Kernel Version: 6.6.28-1-lts (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
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