Provide some sort of action hint for mime/mediatypes #689
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By adding actions="view|edit" to mime/mediatype pixiewood will also add the EDIT action to the intent handler for that particular mimetype. This is not specified in the appstream metadata format, but appstreamcli doesn't check for parameters so it works for now. I hope to have that behviour codified in appstream at some point. See ximion/appstream#689
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Having such a distinction of edit vs view makes a lot of sense, but it could be a bit difficult to add (not to the XML, but to the C API...). I'll look into it :-) |
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I'm in the process of writing a tool which produces an Android Manifest (mostly) based on an appstream upstream metadata component. On android you have to explicitly specify an action for which mimetypes should be handled. I specifically want to differentiate between applications that only have the ability to "view" a file of a specific mimetype and applications that can also "edit" those.
Functionality like this is also not limited to Android, as for example GLib/GIO has a
hintparameter in its Gio.Application.open which might allow an application to determine what it is supposed to do.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: