Rescuing this from doc/dispatch.txt before I delete it: > File transfers might be a useful model for collaborative applications > to use to transfer snapshots of state, or to transfer related files > (e.g. in a word processor, you could receive an inline image that is > embedded in the document). This is much like dis6_. > > Additional problems: if the file transfer is part of the word processor's > IPC mechanism, then it *really* wants to get the file transfer, rather than > having another process get it as a result of a situation like dis5c_. > > Proposed implementation: Don't do this. The only case where FT-as-IPC might be appropriate is where you do want the fallback behaviour to be "save it as a file". If you send someone a Tomboy note with ContentType = "text/x-tomboy", but they don't in fact have Tomboy, then perhaps just saving a blob of text to their downloads folder is what you wanted?
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