Re: XDG Default Applications specification proposal

I believe my previous proposal still holds here.
https://github.com/Vladimir-csp/xdg-terminal-exec

On 2020-07-20 14:00, [email protected]
wrote:

* Must be user-configurable (overriding desktop and distro defaults)

Check.

* Must produce a sensible result without user configuration (installing a
desktop Linux distribution should have a sensible default)

If desktop's terminal provides .desktop file in xdg-terminals dir
under XDG_DATA hierarchy, it will be chosen

* Default is desktop-dependent (if the user has not expressed a preference,
GNOME users expect to see gnome-terminal and KDE users expect konsole)
- In particular this means things like the Debian /etc/alternatives
mechanism are unsuitable

Desktops can provide /etc/xdg/$desktop-xdg-terminals.list

* Reading the configuration format should not require linking to specific
implementation libraries
- GLib isn't going to want to link to KDE libraries, Qt/KDE isn't going
to want to link to GNOME libraries, and neither is likely to want to
become dependent on some desktop-agnostic abstraction layer library
whose continued maintenance they cannot guarantee

Plain .desktop entries and ini configs in XDG_CONFIG hierarchy.

* Different terminals need different arguments to introduce the command
to execute
- xterm -e
- gnome-terminal -x (in old versions)
- gnome-terminal -- (in new versions)

Covered.

* Some terminal authors will be unwilling to introduce a D-Bus dependency
- In particular xterm is unlikely to do this

Proposal's reference implementation is pure shell.

Many of the requirements are the same as for MIME-type handling, so
many of them can be satisfied by an implementation that mimics MIME-type
handling.

Exactly.

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