New handling for URI scheme handlers

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Terça-feira 05 Outubro 2010, às 18:20:10, Aaron J. Seigo escreveu:
> On Tuesday, October 5, 2010, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > The attached patch is changes to the shared-mime-info spec to mention
> > the use of x-scheme-handler/* mime-types.
> > 
> > Any comments?
> 
> i suggested to use the mimetype database in a very similar way for default
> applications (default terminal, web browser, etc). this idea was denied
> because it was "misusing the mimetype database for non-mimetype data". if
> this does indeed become part of the fd.o spec, can we also add something
> in there for default apps at the same time that uses it in the
> same/similar manner?
> 
> if consistency reigns and this addition does not achieve consensus
> approval, we do have .protocol files in KDE already and it would be nice
> (and sensible) to use something that already exists instead of reinventing
> new wheels of incompatibility.

KDE would require changes anyway. Two reasons that come to mind already:

1) KDE 4 moved the files from /usr/share/services to /usr/share/kde4/services 
to avoid clashing with the KDE 3 settings

2) the same .protocol files store KIO-related information, like which ioslave 
to launch for doing data transfers and whether the protocol/implementation 
supports certain features (server-side moves, hard linking, etc.)

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