Fedora 9 Beta, PackageKit and system-config-printer

[Jesse Keating]

On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 11:07 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Resolving to install packages that provide arbitrary requirements;
> this could be 'smtpdaemon', or provides generated by packages that
> handle particular mime types, or...

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...

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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