[Nepomuk] _NEW_WM_CURRENT_URI

[Sebastian Trüg]

Hi Michal,

what is the status on this?
IMHO it makes perfect sense - especially in the way Lubos drafted it:
using a list of uris with some properties like icon and maybe even mimetype.

Cheers,
Sebastian

On 06/01/2010 09:47 AM, Michal Hruby wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> lately we've seen more interest in semantic desktop, and one thing we're 
> missing is a standardized way to determine what document(-s) is an 
> application working with (see [1] for more background info).
> 
> Nepomuk guys are already starting to use special DBus service to which 
> supported apps talk, and we in Zeitgeist are also using plugins for 
> various apps to tell us which resource they use.
> Therefore I suggest adding new X property where windows would indicate 
> which resource is currently opened inside them and update this property 
> when another document is opened or tab with different document is 
> activated.
> 
> There were also suggestions to make this property a list of uris, but 
> I'm still not convinced this is a good idea - we shouldn't automatically 
> assume that all uris opened in an app are related to each other (see 
> people using lots of tabs in browsers, never-ending list of uris for 
> media-players, ...).
> 
> This will also allow implementing document-based pagers to push the 
> limits of current application-based ones.
> 
> Regards,
> Michal Hruby
> 
> [1] http://mhr3.blogspot.com/2010/05/lets-make-users-lives-easier.html
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