URL and application handling/registration standard

Сергей Давыдов shnatsel at gmail.com
Tue Oct 2 06:44:30 PDT 2012


>
> Behavior will largely depend on the actual program xdg-open delegates to.
> E.g. on KDE the KIO subsystem knows how to determine the MIME type of a
> resource and will look up the application associated with it.
>
> I would guess that this is also true for GNOME and their IO framework.
>

It is true for GVFS; gvfs-info can detect mimetype of remote files and
gvfs-mime is supposed to print the application associated with it, but the
latter didn't work on my system.

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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
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