New handling for URI scheme handlers

Bastien Nocera hadess at hadess.net
Mon Oct 11 15:24:23 PDT 2010


On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 23:59 +0200, David Faure wrote:
> On Friday 08 October 2010, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I just committed support for x-scheme-handler/* to KDE, it will be in KDE SC 4.6.

Thanks, much appreciated.



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