[Nepomuk] _NEW_WM_CURRENT_URI

[Sebastian Trüg]

On 06/17/2010 05:17 PM, Michal Hruby wrote:
> as long as there's a way to determine the uri of the active tab, I'm
> fine with it. Still for me some of the other properties seem redundant -
> if you have uri, you can use gio/kio (or a specialized service) to get
> mimetype and thumbnail. And it could also lead to inconsistencies - one
> app will make the thumbnail nice - add a frame or something, and another
> one will make it basic for the same uri. Isn't this inconsistency why
> we're trying to use icon names everywhere instead of bitmaps?

sounds reasonable, too....

> Also I'm not really sure what should be done after we agree here on the
> new property/-ies.

good question indeed. I suppose someone needs to get in contact with
some X people...

> Michal
> 
> On 06/15/2010 01:11 PM, Sebastian Trüg wrote:
>> 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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