<div dir="ltr"><div></div>What's the use case you imagine where the user would want to choose from a list of IRC clients, without the list actually able to launch the IRC client in question with a specific server/channel? It seems quite backwards to have a way to say "this app supports this API/protocol" with the app actually not being able to support that API/protocol. If the app wants to announce itself as an IRC client, it needs to handle the "I support IRC protocol". Yes, that could mean something different from irc: URIs, but if Quassel doesn't support IRC URIs, what makes you think it will gain support for your protocol, or why your protocol is better than IRC URIs? </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Jerome Leclanche <<a href="mailto:adys.wh@gmail.com" target="_blank">adys.wh@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Dominique Michel <<a href="mailto:dominique.michel@vtxnet.ch">dominique.michel@vtxnet.ch</a>> wrote: > Le Mon, 6 Jan 2014 15:38:34 +0000, > Jerome Leclanche <<a href="mailto:adys.wh@gmail.com">adys.wh@gmail.com</a>> a écrit : > >> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Bastien Nocera <<a href="mailto:hadess@hadess.net">hadess@hadess.net</a>> >> wrote: >> > On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 14:48 +0100, David Faure wrote: >> >> On Monday 06 January 2014 14:44:27 Bastien Nocera wrote: >> >> > On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 14:35 +0100, David Faure wrote: >> >> > > On Monday 06 January 2014 14:28:01 Bastien Nocera wrote: >> >> > > > And it's more about services (allow me to pick a photo, or >> >> > > > select a contact) than about full-fledged applications. A >> >> > > > terminal emulator can hardly be thought as providing a >> >> > > > service to other applications, a photo picker provided by >> >> > > > the native photo application would. >> >> > > >> >> > > My point is that both needs (i.e. use cases) exist. >> >> > > >> >> > > I know that "intents" and the use of dbus interfaces is about >> >> > > what you describe. >> >> > > >> >> > > I'm simply pointing out that the other use case (merely >> >> > > starting apps, at most with a url on the command line) exists >> >> > > too, and that I'd like to see a standard solution for it. >> >> > >> >> > The URL would/should have a mime-type associated to it, so you >> >> > can just lookup by mime-type. >> >> >> >> "at most" means "sometimes none". >> >> >> >> There's no URL and no mimetype involved when listing or starting >> >> - window managers >> >> - terminal emulators >> > >> > Those would be covered by the Implements changes documented by Ryan: >> > <a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73317" target="_blank">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73317</a> >> > >> >> - instant messaging apps >> > >> > xmpp, and irc schemes at least, so those are covered by >> > x-scheme-handler/* >> > >> >> - email clients >> > >> > mailto scheme >> > >> >> All these are not safe assumptions. Quassel, for example, does not >> support irc: uris. > > Is it not the job of an application, or package manager, to > provide the right mimes type for the application? > > If that mime type does not exist, it must be added. > > Dominique >> >> J. Leclanche >> _______________________________________________ >> xdg mailing list >> <a href="mailto:xdg@lists.freedesktop.org">xdg@lists.freedesktop.org</a> >> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg</a> > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > <a href="mailto:xdg@lists.freedesktop.org">xdg@lists.freedesktop.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg</a> </div></div>The association is irrelevant. Quassel does not support being given irc uris. You're welcome to write a patch for every broken app, though. <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> J. Leclanche _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list <a href="mailto:xdg@lists.freedesktop.org">xdg@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Jasper </div>