On 2017-01-14, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
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> Is there any evidence that xdg-mime/xdg-open will ever be safe?
Not bullet-proof but maybe safe enaugh to be used as default.
+1 in a properly configured system, the system-wide user preference will be
honoured, no need to configure preferences for b
On 01/16/2017 04:28 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote:
Guenter put X-Apps into configure script, so my understanding is that
MINT should be covered now.
Pavel
Great! Thanks to all.
Paul
Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> As far as standing pat, I can testify that this represents a PITA for Mint
> users once they upgrade to 18.1 (or maybe 18.0), because the X-Apps are not
> recognized and, depending on what else they have installed, they can end up
> with no viewers or gimp and notepad (WIN
On 01/14/2017 06:01 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2017-01-14, Pavel Sanda wrote:
Guenter Milde wrote:
A more general question to all developers:
When checking for default viewer/editor applications during (re)configure,
should LyX
a) prefer feature rich applications, or
b) prefer small and fast-s
On 2017-01-14, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> Guenter Milde wrote:
>> A more general question to all developers:
>> When checking for default viewer/editor applications during (re)configure,
>> should LyX
>> a) prefer feature rich applications, or
>> b) prefer small and fast-starting applications.
> As I
Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> I don't know why Linux distributions store MIME associations in so many
> different places, but in any event we apparently can't count on xdg-mime to
> find the correct associations, and there is no painless way for a user to
> fix that (at least none that I can find). My
Guenter Milde wrote:
> A more general question to all developers:
>
> When checking for default viewer/editor applications during (re)configure,
> should LyX
>
> a) prefer feature rich applications, or
> b) prefer small and fast-starting applications.
As I don't see any obvious choice I would
On 01/13/2017 09:19 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:
IMV, using xdg-mime query seems the right way but not easy.
Maybe you can open an enhancement ticket.
tl;dr
I'm now having second thoughts about it. I discovered xdg-mime returns
incorrect information on my laptop (including naming applications tha
On 2017-01-13, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> On 01/13/2017 03:27 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:
>> A more general question to all developers:
>> When checking for default viewer/editor applications during (re)configure,
>> should LyX
>> a) prefer feature rich applications, or
>> b) prefer small and fast-start
Am 13.01.2017 um 14:32 schrieb Paul A. Rubin :
>
> On 01/13/2017 03:27 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:
>> A more general question to all developers:
>>
>> When checking for default viewer/editor applications during (re)configure,
>> should LyX
>> a) prefer feature rich applications, or
>> b) prefer sm
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 1:27 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:
>
> A more general question to all developers:
>
> When checking for default viewer/editor applications during (re)configure,
> should LyX
>
> a) prefer feature rich applications, or
> b) prefer small and fast-starting applications.
>
I don't
On 01/13/2017 03:27 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:
A more general question to all developers:
When checking for default viewer/editor applications during (re)configure,
should LyX
a) prefer feature rich applications, or
b) prefer small and fast-starting applications.
Current praxis seems to be:
On 2017-01-12, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 04:08:18PM +0100, Günter Milde wrote:
>> commit 8e65250110cc0003b370c71e27c5713b8051ac0e
...
>> * Under Linux, notepad comes with the Windows emulator "wine"
>> but it is not a good choice for the default text editor.
> If I r
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 04:08:18PM +0100, Günter Milde wrote:
> commit 8e65250110cc0003b370c71e27c5713b8051ac0e
> Author: Günter Milde
> Date: Thu Jan 12 15:35:24 2017 +0100
>
> configure.py: Make 'notepad' last in text editor list
>
> Place "notepad" at the end of the text editor
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