(sorry for breaking the thread I get mime digests but OSX Mail.app doesn't like them)
Hi, > This morning I implemented in GNOME use of the x-scheme-handler/* > mime-type for applications to register their interest in handling > particular URI schemes. > > I posted about it in: > http://www.hadess.net/2010/10/new-control-center-and-you.html > And have a blocker bug for GNOME applications in: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=631433 > > The attached patch is changes to the shared-mime-info spec to mention > the use of x-scheme-handler/* mime-types. > > Any comments? "BeOS did this 15 years ago" ? ;-) FWIW Yeah really in BeOS we have them mapped as application/x-vnd.Be.URL.foo and that's what we use in Haiku as well. cf. http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/src/data/beos_mime/application/x-vnd.be.url.http http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/src/data/beos_mime/application/x-vnd.be.url.ssh ... http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/src/bin/urlwrapper.cpp http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/src/bin/urlwrapper.rdef I suppose we could push Haiku to switch to this supertype too... Does the IANA actually allow vendor-specific supertypes ? Nice to see we had it right ;) > On Tuesday, October 5, 2010, Bastien Nocera wrote: >> The attached patch is changes to the shared-mime-info spec to mention >> the use of x-scheme-handler/* mime-types. >> >> Any comments? > > i suggested to use the mimetype database in a very similar way for default > applications (default terminal, web browser, etc). this idea was denied > because it was "misusing the mimetype database for non-mimetype data". if > this > does indeed become part of the fd.o spec, can we also add something in there > for default apps at the same time that uses it in the same/similar manner? I don't see what's wrong with this... "BeOS did this 15 years ago" also with applications, they all have a mime signature anyway ;-) For example the default browser is the preferred app for text/html, same for text/email : $ setmime -dump text/html /bin/setmime -set text/html -short "HTML File" -preferredAppSig application/x-vnd.Firefox -sniffRule '0.40 [0:64]( -i "<HTML" | "<HEAD" | "<TITLE" | "<BODY" | "<TABLE" | "<!--" | "<META" | "<CENTER")' -extension htm -extension html $ setmime -dump text/x-email /bin/setmime -set text/x-email -short "E-mail" -long "Electronic Mail Message" -preferredAppSig application/x-vnd.Be-MAIL >> But to come back to your use case, all urls with a given scheme, no mimetype >> at all, then OK. I just hope nobody installs a desktop file with x-scheme- >> handler/http ever... > > Apart from web browsers, nothing should. And the cleverness for that > particular codepath is still there. In Haiku /bin/urlwrapper accepts http: and calls wget, which can be useful as default when no browser is installed... > The main use though would be when applications handle *all* the files on > the URI scheme, such as: > - MMS, RTSP, RTP URIs -> movie player > - FEED, ZCAST, ITPC -> podcast manager > - MAILTO -> mail client > etc. Exactly. urlwrapper here starts Terminal with the corresponding command for ssh:, telnet:, sh: (with a warning :p) :-) I even wrote http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/src/bin/checkitout.cpp which accepts git: svn: and friends and asks you where you want the sources checked out :-) François. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
