I recently discovered one approach to registering new protocols that at least
work with firefox. By registering the "pseudo" MIME type
x-scheme-handler/ with the mime system and the .desktop system,
at least the firefox browser will suggest to start the registered program.
I just uploaded a
It would be great if there were bitcoin: protocol support in Chromium
too when installing bitcoin-qt on a machine with Chromium installed.
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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen
I can confirm the provided patch works for GTK/GConf-powered desktops.
The disable command also works and effectively removes all previous
settings
from the user's GConf profile. However since this is a per-user setting, I
believe
debian-desktop is a more appropriate place to discuss about it's
I am not quite sure, but suspect something like this can be used by
individual users to enable the bitcoin: protocol in iceweasel:
#!/bin/sh
# This shell script can be used to configure the "bitcoin://" URL handler
# for Gnome/Iceweasel
case "$1" in
enable|'')
gconftool-2 -t string -s
Package: bitcoind
Version: 0.7.2-1
Setting package to bitcoind because the bitcoin-qt package is not yet in
the archive.
The new GUI client package in git include a protocol driver for KDE4,
providing konqueror with support for the bitcoin: URI. But the same
should be provided for Iceweasel.
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