New handling for URI scheme handlers

[Bastien Nocera]

On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 18:01 +0200, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Em Terça-feira 05 Outubro 2010, às 17:36:52, Damjan Jovanovic escreveu:
> > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> wrote:
> > > Heya,
> > > 
> > > This morning I implemented in GNOME use of the x-scheme-handler/*
> > > mime-type for applications to register their interest in handling
> > > particular URI schemes.
> > > 
> > > I posted about it in:
> > > http://www.hadess.net/2010/10/new-control-center-and-you.html
> > > And have a blocker bug for GNOME applications in:
> > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=631433
> > > 
> > > The attached patch is changes to the shared-mime-info spec to mention
> > > the use of x-scheme-handler/* mime-types.
> > > 
> > > Any comments?
> >
> > I love it. Does it work in KDE?
> 
> No.
> 
> KDE requires that you install a .protocol file (which is just a .desktop file 
> with a different extension) in /usr/share/kde4/services.

I should add that using a mime-type means that you get to have an
mmap'ed binary cache, which is probably the only gain above the KDE
implementation.

And you could keep both implementations as well...

Cheers