Bug 160860

Summary:	RFE: Add ability to launch external editors on resources based on Freedesktop.org mime actions specification
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Dave Malcolm <dmalcolm>
Component:	eclipse	Assignee:	Alexander Kurtakov <akurtako>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	billy.biggs, eclipse-bugs
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Description Dave Malcolm 2005-06-17 20:53:23 UTC

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Description of problem:
Freedesktop.org has a system for registering applications, mimetypes, and the mappings between them, so you can query to e.g. find all applications that can open PNG files.

The specification is here:
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fmime_2dactions_2dspec

(This is implemented by the GNOME VFS library, btw)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
eclipse-platform-3.1.0_fc-0.M7.7

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Right-click on a resource of a type that isn't supported by Eclipse's File Associations mapping
2.  Look at "Open With..." context submenu

Actual Results:  Open With... submenu has options:
  Text Editor
  System Editor
  Default Editor

Expected Results:  Suggest that if the mimetype is known about by the freedesktop.org mime database and there are registered applications that can handled it, the Open With... menu  should have a separator, followed by all applications in the local  freedesktop.org application mapping for that mimetype.

So e.g. for a PNG file it would offer to:
  Open with "The GIMP"
  Open with "eog"
etc


Additional info:

Comment 1 Billy Biggs 2005-06-17 21:17:31 UTC

Eclipse honours the freedesktop.org MIME system using gnome-vfs via the SWT
Program API.

The "Open With... > System Editor" functionality is implemented using the SWT
Program API, which uses gnome_vfs_url_show() (same as gnome-open).  

This feature request must be done in two parts, first, the SWT Program API would
need to be extended to support some way of returning multiple results for a file
type or filename.  I have opened this feature request:

  https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=100676

Once this is done, the Eclipse UI would need to be changed to add more options
to their Open With context menus in the appropriate places.

Comment 2 Dave Malcolm 2005-06-17 21:48:53 UTC

The UI would be greatly improved as well if rather than saying "System Editor"
it actually said what it was going to do, e.g. System Editor: The GIMP" (and
then had the other options listed after a separator).

(Icons for the different applications would be nice too!)

Comment 3 Billy Biggs 2005-06-17 22:01:02 UTC

While that sounds like an easy change, it would mean we couldn't use
gnome_vfs_url_show(), we'd have to first determine the MIME type of the file and
then get the application for that MIME type.  I like using gnome_vfs_url_show()
has the advantage that it is clean and consistent with gnome-open.

Regardless, we should really have this discussion in the Eclipse bugzilla, and
nothing can be done lightly as it will require researching what is available on
the other platforms first.

Comment 4 Andrew Overholt 2006-05-16 19:25:16 UTC

Should we close this as upstream or do we want to hack our packages to have this
functionality?

Comment 5 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2010-08-31 15:58:58 UTC

This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 6 Alexander Kurtakov 2013-03-01 08:57:41 UTC

I'm closing as upstream as no work is happening here for 8 years and the default case (use system editor) is already implemented for long time. For the rest there is bug upstream so things should be tracked there.