protocol/scheme entry in .desktop?

[David Faure]

On Monday 30 June 2008, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 09:21:26AM +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > 
> >  + add a VfsBackend key to desktop files, where the value could be KIO,
> >    gio, etc.
> >  + then, have $XDG_DATA_DIRS/vfs/{KIO,gio,etc.}/ contain a list of
> >    desktop files for each URI scheme it supports
> > 
> > How does it sound to you?
> 
> I think that it would be better if, beside the gio/kio indirection it
> was also possible to specify protocol for applications that don't use
> vfs but still understand a given protocol, or use vfs but also
> internally support the same or other protocols. This would also
> allow for specifying more than one vfs. So the key would be something 
> like 
> 
> protocol=gio;https;kio;

Yes, I agree.

I remember that xmms needed a way to say it supported http urls, even though
it doesn't use either kio nor gio. So we definitely need to be able to say
Protocols=file,http,https
as well as
Protocols=KIO

And yes, defining somewhere what KIO and gio mean, is very much necessary.

-- 
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