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: > > > On 07/24/2011 07:26 AM, Keith Poole wrote: >> Hey, >> >> Sorry if this has been covered before, but I couldn't find anything after a >> fair bit of research. >> >> I'm looking for a fairly distribution/DM-agnostic (eg: will work with >> Gnome/KDE/XFCE/etc) way of registering a new URI scheme such as >> abc://name?data and for creating a Notification Area icon. >> >> Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> -Keith >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> xdg mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg > > Well technically the IETF registers scheme names. However unless your > application has industry wide impact they are not going to bother with you. > I would suggest using whatever you like that seems unused and (up to some > point pre-release) be prepared to change it if you later learn of a > collision. It is hard to know without some more detail about the scope of > what you are doing. > > As to notification area icons, in GTK there is GtkStatusIcon or GtkPlug; Qt > has QSystemTrayIcon. If you were interested in the Ubuntu specific indicator > applet mechanism, libindicator. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
