Fedora 9 Beta, PackageKit and system-config-printer

[James Antill]

On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 16:48 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 11:17 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > Ah yes, that was a conversation we had on the shuttle bus the other
> > morning.  Wouldn't it be awesome if during rpm build time, .desktop
> > files were processed for Application provides of a generic enough
> > type,
> > as well as what mime types said application handled?  Then we could do
> > great things like expose listings of applications, with sub-listings
> > of
> > optional providers of said applications, instead of showing people
> > hard
> > to understand upstream project names by default.  Also, when you try
> > to
> > open a file of an unhandled mime type, we could ask PackageKit to show
> > me the options for handling this mime type...
> 
> Already exists. Just run pk-import-desktop - this just has to be hooked
> up to koji or something.

 As much as I like PK for solving some problems, do we really need to
have the Fedora build system depend on it? I can't imagine that writing
the above directly using yum APIs would be that much work, no?

-- 
James Antill <james at fedoraproject.com>
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