[Sugar-devel] Starting one activity with a uri in Sugar

[Kevin Mark]

On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 05:57:06PM -0400, mokurai at earthtreasury.org wrote:
> On Tue, August 2, 2011 10:13 am, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Thomas C Gilliard <
> > satellit at bendbroadband.com> wrote:
> >
> >> **
> >>
> >>
> >> Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> >>
> >> Right now, we can't open a url from a PDF file or from the the terminal
> >> in
> >> Browse,
> >> or a PDF file from Browse. In the case of files, we need copy the file
> >> in
> >> the Journal
> >> and open it from here, but there are cases where this is not a good
> >> idea,
> >> like when is a PDF
> >> stored in a content bundle already present in a XO.
> >>
> >> The experience for the user is suboptimal and there are lot of code
> >> duplication, for example,
> >> in OLPC we forked the Browse activity to include a PDF plugin [1], but
> >> we
> >> can't open EPUB files,
> >> and if I want implement this will finish re-implementing all the Read
> >> activity. The plugin itself
> >> is a hack and we are not comfortable with pushing it upstream.
> >>
> >> There are a propose from Martin Abente [2] to add a uri to the
> >> parameters of
> >> sugar-launch
> >> and looks like there are consensus to include it.
> >> Can we land this now? Thoughts?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> sugarize evince for pdf access to journal (read only)?
> >>
> >
> > Well, this is what Read activity and the PDF reader plugin do...
> 
> What about a more general mechanism for handling mime types that would
> allow activities to register themselves to handle them? It is not only
> Browse that has this problem, but any activity that displays documents.
> 
Does this sound like the FDO 'xdg-open' mechanism? 

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