Hello.
Things you describe already exist:
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/latest/
and 'x-scheme-handler' notation is there for uri's.
The problem is that Firefox and Thunderbird do not follow the spec properly.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=296443 this bug is still 'new'.
On 2017-08-29 03:58, Thomas U. Grüttmüller wrote:
Hello list,
When I get emails with a PDF attachment, Icedove (aka Thunderbird)
tries to open it with The GIMP. This always makes me angry, because I
would like it to open it with Atril (the Evince clone that preserves
the menu bar), and I can’t find the right configuration option to
change this behaviour. So my current “solution” is to open the file
with GIMP, kill GIMP and then open the file manually, while it is
still in /tmp.
Setting file types in ROX filer is pretty straightforward, but there
are no defaults at all, and – as the example above shows – other
programs don’t care about these settings.
So my idea is: it would be neat if there was a common database of file
types, accessible by all programs, that contains information about
which program to use to open files of a specific type.
The second issue is about URI schemes. I have noticed that Firefox has
no idea how to open geo:, irc: or tel: URIs. It just responds: “This
address wasn’t understood”. So I also propose to also have a common
database of URI schemes, accessible by all programs, that contains
information about which program to use to open URIs of a specific scheme.
Greetings,
Thomas
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