Hi everyone.
On 2020-08-30 00:23, Piotr Karbowski wrote:
My goal is to create a drop-in replacement for xdg-utils, while greatly
simplifying the logic. For example, xdg-open uses xdg-mime, and xdg-mime
have whole logic to choose what tool it should use to query for
mimetype, if there's kde, it will use kmimetypefinder, if there's gnome
it will use gio and fallback to gvfs-info, if it fail to detect DE, it
will use mimeinfo written in Perl instead.
For this route the new xdg-mime will just use python-magic (bindings to
libmagic) regardless of what DE is running, as I really see no benefit
in using DE specific tools to query for mime, it will only result in
fragmentation and issues with reproducing bugs, as there's multiple code
paths.
I agree with this intent. I think this whole logic of hardcoding
DE-specific tools is a leftover from the times when XDG spec had no
support for DE level customization itself. Now it has
$desktop-mimeapps.list mechanism for a while.
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