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Give each default-application role a whole family of types

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Every role carried a single representative type, so setting "Images"
changed image/png and left image/jpeg wherever it landed. That is how
this desktop ended up opening PDFs in GIMP, PNGs in a pixel-art editor
and MP3s in a video transcoder: nobody chose any of it, applications
registered themselves for everything they could read, and the roles
governed one type each.

Roles now own families and write every type when set, the settings page
exposes the documents, text and archives roles it never offered, and a
new seed command curates a fresh machine during setup while always
keeping a choice the user has already made.

The shipped editor entry launches kitty explicitly. The stock
nvim.desktop sets Terminal=true, which defers to whatever the system
considers default rather than the terminal this desktop themes.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BRvzt4H8XXLPVH5MyYdk9L
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Gabriel Brown
2026-08-19 09:17:33 -04:00
parent 2fcaada7e8
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config/dot/quickshell/modules/settings/ApplicationsPage.qml
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@@ -14,14 +14,21 @@ SettingsPage {
property string expandedRole: ""
property bool addingAutostart: false
readonly property var applications: DesktopEntries.applications.values
// Each role governs a whole family of types, not one representative: setting
// "Images" writes PNG, JPEG, WebP and the rest together, so a file manager
// can never open one image in a viewer and its neighbour in an editor.
// The detail line names the family the way someone would describe it.
readonly property var roles: [
{ key: "browser", label: "Browser", detail: "Web links and HTML pages", categorySets: [["webbrowser"]], terms: ["web browser", "browser"] },
{ key: "mail", label: "Mail", detail: "Email links", categorySets: [["email"]], terms: ["mail client", "email client"] },
{ key: "files", label: "Files", detail: "Folders and file locations", categorySets: [["filemanager"]], terms: ["file manager"] },
{ key: "terminal", label: "Terminal", detail: "Terminal links and command-line handoffs", categorySets: [["terminalemulator"]], terms: ["terminal emulator", "terminal"] },
{ key: "music", label: "Music", detail: "MP3 audio", categorySets: [["music"], ["audio", "player"]], terms: ["music player", "audio player"] },
{ key: "images", label: "Images", detail: "PNG images", categorySets: [], terms: ["image viewer", "image editor", "photo viewer", "photo editor", "picture viewer"] },
{ key: "video", label: "Video", detail: "MP4 video", categorySets: [["video"]], terms: ["video player", "movie player"] }
{ key: "images", label: "Images", detail: "PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP, SVG and other pictures", categorySets: [], terms: ["image viewer", "image editor", "photo viewer", "photo editor", "picture viewer"] },
{ key: "music", label: "Music", detail: "MP3, FLAC, Ogg and other audio", categorySets: [["music"], ["audio", "player"]], terms: ["music player", "audio player"] },
{ key: "video", label: "Video", detail: "MP4, MKV, WebM and other video", categorySets: [["video"]], terms: ["video player", "movie player"] },
{ key: "documents", label: "Documents", detail: "PDF and EPUB documents", categorySets: [["office", "viewer"]], terms: ["document viewer", "pdf viewer", "ebook", "e-book"] },
{ key: "text", label: "Text", detail: "Plain text, Markdown, and source files", categorySets: [["texteditor"]], terms: ["text editor", "code editor"] },
{ key: "archives", label: "Archives", detail: "Zip, tar, and other archives", categorySets: [["archiving"], ["filemanager"]], terms: ["archive manager", "file roller", "file manager"] }
]
function desktopId(entry: var): string {