shared mime info: URI scheme handlers for non browsers

[David Faure]

On Monday 17 October 2011 23:06:24 Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Scrool <scroolik at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'd like to ask you for clarification of "URI scheme handlers" section
> > in Shared MIME-info Database spec. Quote from last paragraph:
> > 
> > "Note that this virtual mime-type is not for listing URI schemes that
> > an application can load files from. For example, a movie player would
> > not list x-scheme-handler/http in its supported mime-types, but it
> > would list x-scheme-handler/rtsp if it supported playing back from
> > RTSP locations."
> > 
> > a) Let's have a video player that uses HTTP to download a movie and
> > its subsequent play. This player should not register
> > x-scheme-handler/http, right?
> > b) Another video player that uses HTTP as a transport protocol for
> > video streaming. This player may register x-scheme-handler/http?
> 
> Claiming to handle "x-scheme-handler/http" is basically saying "I can
> handle anything that you throw my way as long as it's HTTP". That
> includes regular web pages so I guess the answer is that no
> media-specific application should ever register for a generic
> protocol.

Instead, the .desktop file should mention %u in the Exec line, so that the 
launchers know that this application supports HTTP urls.

Ideally the .desktop file would also mention Protocols=http, but this proposal 
was rejected by the GIO people.

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Sponsored by Nokia to work on KDE, incl. Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org).