protocol/scheme entry in .desktop?

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Mon Jun 30 14:50:40 PDT 2008


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;

--
Pat


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