Re: Desktop apps interoperability

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 01:09:57PM -0500, Jim McCullough wrote:
> There as been multiple instances on other lists where an "admin" or
> "developer" has been totally ignorant of any type of security
> practices.  Cases of do as I will and roll with the punches.  This
> occurs on all platforms of development.   Freedom of implementation
> should also require some common sense.  I like the content folders
> Ivan suggested.   

 kdbfs.  modelled on the MAC OS/X "finder".  absolutely brilliant.

 a pity its back-end is implemented in ocaml.

 kdbfs is similar to famd / locate, only the author went a stage further
 and wrote a front-end that modifies the dialog boxes in KDE 3.2 [which
 i later ported to 3.3].

 the reason i mention it is because its default installation assumes
 that there exists ~/Applications, ~/Music, ~/Pictures etc, ~/Documents,
 ~/Video.

 what it does is, depending on the mime-type [file extension], it will
 present you with a file-save dialog box where there is NO CHOICE about
 where the [new] file you are saving goes.  IT WILL be saved in ~/Music
 if it has a .mpg extension.  IT WILL be saved in ~/Pictures if it has a
 .jpg extension.

 you get the idea.

 i loved it - but it wasn't integrated "enough" - unlike the MAC OS/X
 functionality it was trying to emulate.

 and unfortunately it's not a half-way-house solution: recompiling
 openoffice.org to use it for example was not an option [no KDE
 extensions available at the time, will have to wait for OO 2.0
 and _then_ specially recompile the KDE 3.3 or KDE 3.4 libs with
 the kdbfs patches... you get the idea]...

 
 basically, if there existed a linux distro which had kdbfs "rolled out"
 as an option, then it would be worthwhile having a kdbfs.te which
 defined an option that then enforced saving of files in these specific
 locations.

 l.


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