protocol handling spec?

[Kristof Vansant]

I agree I was looking into adding aim: and irc: support to gnome-vfs and
noticed the way they store what app is openend with mailto: etc  is kind
of stupid. It shouldn't belong in gconf! It should be desktop
independend. 

On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 11:30, Christian Neumair wrote:
> While we've made much progress in desktop environment-independent
> handling of MIME types, that's not the case for protocol handling.
> I don't know all of the requirements yet, so here are some basic
> question that come in mind when talking about protocol handlers:
> 
> - protocol://path/file.doc != protocol://path/file.xls?,
>   i.e. should protocol handling have any relation to MIME handling?
> 
> - good idea to integrate with application .desktop files?
> 
> - how to deal with multiple handlers?
> 
> - current intermediate solution in GNOME: gconf has:
> /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/<protocol>/command
> /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/<protocol>/enabled
> /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/<protocol>/need_terminal
> What about KDE?
> 
> - only deal with remote files? What about file://?
> 
> regs,
>  Chris
> 
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