New handling for URI scheme handlers

Bastien Nocera hadess at hadess.net
Fri Oct 8 06:24:31 PDT 2010


On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 16:32 +0100, Bastien Nocera 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 committed the changes to the spec to shared-mime-info, with the
addition of a clarification paragraph to mention that the mime-type
should not be used to advertise supported URI schemes.

Cheers



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