New handling for URI scheme handlers

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Tuesday, October 5, 2010, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> The attached patch is changes to the shared-mime-info spec to mention
> the use of x-scheme-handler/* mime-types.
> 
> Any comments?

i suggested to use the mimetype database in a very similar way for default 
applications (default terminal, web browser, etc). this idea was denied 
because it was "misusing the mimetype database for non-mimetype data". if this 
does indeed become part of the fd.o spec, can we also add something in there 
for default apps at the same time that uses it in the same/similar manner?

if consistency reigns and this addition does not achieve consensus approval, 
we do have .protocol files in KDE already and it would be nice (and sensible) 
to use something that already exists instead of reinventing new wheels of 
incompatibility.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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