kdesupport/emerge

[Jarosław Staniek]

David Faure said the following, On 2008-02-25 13:48:

> It's used for finding installed applications (desktop files) on the system.
> But I'm not sure you care for cohabitation with gnome-on-windows or other linux-apps-ported-to-windows at this point just yet :)

We wouldn't care. By the time, really I am predicting: 
GNOME-on-windows-or-whatever-it-would-be-named would heavily depend on .NET 
subsystem.

> In the long run I guess you'll need to generate desktop files for installed apps on windows 
 > [or make kbuildsycoca create kservices from installed apps],
 >so that one can set up mime-app associations like "clicking on .doc in dolphin
 > or konqueror opens in MS Word",
 > but this is unrelated to XDG_DATA_DIRS then.

For that one I am rather thinking on integrating with HKCU registry classes, 
nicely wrapped. Otherwise user would not see changes made to mimetype 
associations in non-kde windows apps, e.g. explorer.exe (and conversely).

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