Cross platform URI schemes and notification area icons

[Keith Poole]

Thanks for your responses, I'll look into this :)

-Keith

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Marty Jack <martyj19 at comcast.net> wrote:

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> On 07/24/2011 01:06 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On 24 Jul 2011, at 16:40, Marty Jack <martyj19 at comcast.net> wrote:
> >> On 07/24/2011 09:49 AM, Keith Poole wrote:
> >>> Hey,
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for your response, however I was referring to registering it
> with the system, eg: application 'abc' starts and registers the scheme
> abc:// to run itself passing the URL as a parameter.
> >>>
> >>> Under Windows and Mac OS this is quite easy, but there are so many
> varieties of Linux and different desktop managers that I was hoping there
> might be some sort of cross-DM management tool, similar to, or as part of
> xdg-utils.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>> -Keith
> >>>
> >>> On 24/07/2011, at 11:26 PM, Marty Jack <martyj19 at comcast.net> wrote:
> >>>
> >>
> >> Unix-like systems tend to use MIME type as the input key for deriving an
> application that will handle a particular format.  See xdg-mime and
> >>
> >>
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/shared-mime-info-spec/shared-mime-info-spec-latest.html
> >>
> >> There is no desktop independent registry for "scheme" such as you are
> describing.  There are GNOME and KDE and browser specific ways of
> configuring it.
> >
> > There is, and it's in the document you linked. See "URI scheme handlers".
> >>>>
> >
>
> So there is.  I had forgotten about that.
>
> In any event I think Linux users would be happy configuring the scheme
> handler by themselves if needed, with the possible assistance of a release
> note.  It would certainly be unusual to try registering the handler every
> time the application starts.  This would be something you would do once when
> you install, or when you notice it is missing, and leave it set up.
>
> But it's your application, and your users complaining if they see fit, so
> do whatever you think best.
>
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