xdg-open tel: links

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday, 11 January 2021 11:45:52 PST Chanslor Rosenthal wrote:
> Web links to phone numbers already use 'tel:###...', and it's trivial for
> system-side integrations to do the same. All XDG would have to do is to
> enable xdg-open to pass those links to a default application, just like
> anything else it can open. And that's the problem solved!

I think it's already solved. The dialer application needs to install its own 
.desktop file containing a MIME entry for:

MimeType=x-scheme-handler/tel

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/shared-mime-info-spec/shared-mime-info-spec-latest.html#idm45094474779648

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   Software Architect - Intel DPG Cloud Engineering