[maemo-developers] Dbus call to launch Image-Viewer?

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 04:52:14PM +0200, Tuomas Kulve wrote:
> Denis DeLaRoca wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is there a Dbus call to launch the Image-Viewer app with a parameter image 
> > file?
> 
> Not sure about dbus call, but check hildon_mime_open_file() in
> /usr/include/hildon-mime.h.
> 
> At least it's trivial to make a simple executable opening a file with that.
> 
> I think that basically just sends a dbus call, so using dbus directly
> should be possible too.

I would be nice if future version of the OS came with a small hildon-open
program, similar to gnome-open on desktop systems.

  $ hildon-open /path/to/file
  $ hildon-open http://some/url

Marius Gedminas
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