Thanks for your responses, I'll look into this :) -Keith
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Marty Jack <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 07/24/2011 01:06 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > 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". > >>>> > > > > So there is. I had forgotten about that. > > In any event I think Linux users would be happy configuring the scheme > handler by themselves if needed, with the possible assistance of a release > note. It would certainly be unusual to try registering the handler every > time the application starts. This would be something you would do once when > you install, or when you notice it is missing, and leave it set up. > > But it's your application, and your users complaining if they see fit, so > do whatever you think best. >
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