Cross platform URI schemes and notification area icons

[Marty Jack]

On 07/24/2011 07:26 AM, Keith Poole wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Sorry if this has been covered before, but I couldn't find anything after a fair bit of research.
> 
> I'm looking for a fairly distribution/DM-agnostic (eg: will work with Gnome/KDE/XFCE/etc) way of registering a new URI scheme such as abc://name?data and for creating a Notification Area icon.
> 
> Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> -Keith
> 
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Well technically the IETF registers scheme names.  However unless your application has industry wide impact they are not going to bother with you.  I would suggest using whatever you like that seems unused and (up to some point pre-release) be prepared to change it if you later learn of a collision.  It is hard to know without some more detail about the scope of what you are doing.

As to notification area icons, in GTK there is GtkStatusIcon or GtkPlug; Qt has QSystemTrayIcon.  If you were interested in the Ubuntu specific indicator applet mechanism, libindicator.