elementary
Doesn't support actions exposed via D-bus
Contractor doesn't support calling actions via D-bus as opposed to command-line arguments. D-bus is the GNOME and KDE standard, and arguably a much better way to implement such things.
For example, Empathy seems to use D-bus calls for file transfer.
ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: contractor 0.2-0~r26+pkg4~precise1 [origin: LP-PPA-elementary-os-daily] ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-30.48-generic 3.2.27 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-30-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13 Architecture: amd64 CrashDB: contractor Date: Sun Sep 23 13:50:28 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120303) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 SHELL=/usr/bin/fish SourcePackage: contractor UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Launchpad Details: #LP1054925 Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff - 2012-09-23 10:21:57 +0000
Maemo's libcontentaction does support that, and it's time-tested; I believe its .desktop file format is flexible enough. It can be viewed in the overview: http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/docs/platform-api-reference/showdoc.php?pkn=libcontentaction&wb=daily-docs&url=Li94bWwvZGFpbHktZG9jcy9saWJjb250ZW50YWN0aW9u
Launchpad Details: #LPC Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff - 2012-10-03 15:45:47 +0000
Discussion from the Google Doc (http://goo.gl/A2lHJ):
Сергей Давыдов 11:47 AM Sep 4 It's not only ugly, it's limited too. Not every useful D-bus request can be performed with dbus-send.
Fabian Thoma 4:29 PM Oct 26 so how is this needed in contractor? Last time I checked this was a commandline interface and not dbus?
Сергей Давыдов 4:39 PM Oct 26 Exposing app capabilities over D-bus is the cleanest way I can think of. D-bus is designed for this, so we should support calling things over D-bus.
"dbus-send" is what converts command-line stuff to d-bus calls; it's a hacky workaround until we have native D-bus support.
Launchpad Details: #LPC Cassidy James Blaede - 2012-11-09 20:36:39 +0000
On a second thought, D-bus actions are usually quite low-level, so we'd have to present the user with some kind of intermediate UI either way.
For example, sending files with Empathy and Pidgin requires choosing the recipient first in some kind of external UI, as seen in e.g. nautilus-sendto.
Thus calling D-bus actions from Contractor directly might be not needed.
Launchpad Details: #LPC Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff - 2013-04-25 15:13:12 +0000