Hi, Rodrigo Arias <rodar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> One of the features I would like to include is the ability to open a > link with an external handler. We have a proof of concept that uses > the rule file, but I think it is too complex for now: > > https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo/pull/199 I don't know about the complexity, but it worked fine here! > I'm thinking it may be better to add an easier variant first, that we > can extend later. I'm considering adding these to dillorc: > > actions="default Open with external tool" > actions="firefox Open with Firefox" > actions="mpv Open with MPV" > actions="mpv-audio Open with MPV (audio)" > handler="/bin/the-handler" > > Where you can define multiple "actions" but only one "handler". The > actions have a label at the beginning (first word) and a human > readable text that will be presented in the menu. > > Then, your handler will be invoked using the label as: > > /bin/the-handler <URL> <action-label> > > And you do whatever you find convenient in your handler, so you have > more context to decide the proper action based on the label. I think > this would cover most of the use cases of opening URLs with other > programs without being too convoluted. Sounds good, but in that case, maybe we should provide an example handler script in the docs, since that could be a barrier for some users. I'm still using a variant of this[1] patch, but with multiple entries, which still seems to be the easiest way of allowing external actions. [1] https://alex.envs.net/patches/00-ext-link-handler.patch Regards, Alex _______________________________________________ Dillo-dev mailing list -- dillo-dev@mailman3.com To unsubscribe send an email to dillo-dev-le...@mailman3.com
