Dear Sirs, There is a mechanism in .desktop files for advertising capability to handle URI schemes. Basically having foobar-app.desktop that includes line MimeType=application/x-foobar;x-scheme-handler/foobar; tells that URIs of form foobar://... are handled by foobar-app. This is ok and works. But, there is a medium-sized problem, or medium-sized misunderstanding from my side: before xdg-open actually starts launching foobar-app for URIs of form foobar://... each and every users needs to individuall say xdg-mime default foobar-app.desktop x-scheme-handler/foobar and my question is: is there any (good, working) method of doing this from packaging scripts, say, if debhelper is in use? I'm thinking something like system-wide default, if user has not decided to set his own default with "xdg-mime default ..." ; It seems to me that this fine mechanism does not include concept of system-wide default. URI scheme registration after package installation is broken, until user takes additional step after package is installed.
https://wiki.debian.org/MIME is more about file types and suffixes, not URI scheme handlers, altough things are related ; what is the piece here that I'm missing? -- Antti Järvinen
