Proposal: database(s) of file types and URI schemes

[Vladimir Kudrya]

Hello.

Things you describe already exist: 
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/latest/
and 'x-scheme-handler' notation is there for uri's.

The problem is that Firefox and Thunderbird do not follow the spec properly.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=296443 this bug is still 'new'.


On 2017-08-29 03:58, Thomas U. Grüttmüller wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> When I get emails with a PDF attachment, Icedove (aka Thunderbird) 
> tries to open it with The GIMP. This always makes me angry, because I 
> would like it to open it with Atril (the Evince clone that preserves 
> the menu bar), and I can’t find the right configuration option to 
> change this behaviour. So my current “solution” is to open the file 
> with GIMP, kill GIMP and then open the file manually, while it is 
> still in /tmp.
>
> Setting file types in ROX filer is pretty straightforward, but there 
> are no defaults at all, and – as the example above shows – other 
> programs don’t care about these settings.
>
> So my idea is: it would be neat if there was a common database of file 
> types, accessible by all programs, that contains information about 
> which program to use to open files of a specific type.
>
>
> The second issue is about URI schemes. I have noticed that Firefox has 
> no idea how to open geo:, irc: or tel: URIs. It just responds: “This 
> address wasn’t understood”. So I also propose to also have a common 
> database of URI schemes, accessible by all programs, that contains 
> information about which program to use to open URIs of a specific scheme.
>
> Greetings,
> Thomas
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