On Sunday, 30 August, 2020 2:53:37 AM IST Piotr Karbowski wrote: > Hi Simon, > > On 26/08/2020 09.27, Simon Lees wrote: > > I am also interested in this, there are simply to many bugs related to > > shell quoting behavior etc that break something else when they get > > fixed. Unfortunately I have been moved into a different team at work for > > the next few months and don't have alot of time atm. > > > > When I did some initial research into the idea I planned to split the > > mime stuff out of pyxdg into a python-mime library and use that as well > > as creating a separate python library for things like > > desktop_file_to_binary etc Unfortunately I didn't get past the design > > stage. > > > > While I don't have much time in the next 6 months once you upload the > > code i'll happily review it and help test it on openSUSE. > > Will post to list with link to repository once at least basic feature > parity with current xdg-utils is achieved. > > 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 will kill DE specific code paths. Also Any reference to kde4 and gnome2 should be killed. Just one extra code path I will put, will be portals. > After you mentioned pyxdg I looked into it, from what I see it uses > rox-lib2's mime.py to query shared-mime-datebase, but in this case, I > think I will just stick to python-magic (libmagic) instead, as it seems > to be widely used already in other projects. > > If you have any other suggestions, comments or information, please let > me know, I plan to have a working PoC within few weeks (by working I > mean something that will work on my Gentoo for daily usage. :)) > > -- Piotr. > > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
