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". >>> _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
