On Wed, 17 Feb 2021, at 15:06, Bollinger, John C wrote:
> Ok, on re-reading I can see that, but it is even less the GIMP's role to say
> "you should prefer other applications for opening JPEGs" than it is to say
> "you should prefer me for opening XCFs". Desktop files still are not the
> right place to express policy.
I can see what you're saying, but I don't think it's ridiculous to suggest that
a desktop file could encode some indication of how well an application handles
a particular file type. You could think of this as describing 'can open' vs
'can import'. A few more examples from my laptop of technically possible
matches that you probably wouldn't want to be used by default:
* Libreoffice Writer & text/plain
* Libreoffice Draw & application/pdf
* Pinta (bitmap graphics editor) & image/svg
* File roller (archive manager) & application/x-chrome-extension
In my experience, things like this haven't really come up, so I'm inclined to
agree with you that it doesn't warrant changing the standard. But I think it's
better to understand what's specifically going wrong and work out how else it
can be improved, rather than insisting that this could never be part of a
desktop file. Labelling options with some kind of priority is compromise we
live with in various places.
Thomas
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