On 24 Jul 2011, at 16:40, Marty Jack <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 07/24/2011 09:49 AM, Keith Poole wrote:
>> Hey,
>> 
>> Thanks for your response, however I was referring to registering it with the 
>> system, eg: application 'abc' starts and registers the scheme abc:// to run 
>> itself passing the URL as a parameter. 
>> 
>> Under Windows and Mac OS this is quite easy, but there are so many varieties 
>> of Linux and different desktop managers that I was hoping there might be 
>> some sort of cross-DM management tool, similar to, or as part of xdg-utils. 
>> 
>> Thanks
>> -Keith
>> 
>> On 24/07/2011, at 11:26 PM, Marty Jack <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
> 
> Unix-like systems tend to use MIME type as the input key for deriving an 
> application that will handle a particular format.  See xdg-mime and
> 
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/shared-mime-info-spec/shared-mime-info-spec-latest.html
> 
> There is no desktop independent registry for "scheme" such as you are 
> describing.  There are GNOME and KDE and browser specific ways of configuring 
> it.

There is, and it's in the document you linked. See "URI scheme handlers".
>>> 
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