On Tuesday 18 October 2011 13:50:58 Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: > On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:16:48 +0200, Pavol Babinčák > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:12, David Faure <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Instead, the .desktop file should mention %u in the Exec line, so that > >> the > >> launchers know that this application supports HTTP urls. > > > > %s doesn't itself mean it can handle HTTP URLs, does it? Reading > > Desktop Entry Specification (I think) means it accepts argument in URL > > format. This URL can be file or any other specified in > > x-scheme-handler/* (according to Shared MIME-info Database spec). Or > > am I missing something? > > Yes. That is a known ambiguity with %U. You don't know which URI schemes > actually work. I guess, that's why KDE came up with X-KDE-Protocols.
Good guess :-) I made a proposal on 11 Oct. 2010, on this list, to rename it to UrlSchemes (the name "protocols" is quite kde-specific) and include it in the spec, but David Zeuthen was against and the discussion died out. -- David Faure, [email protected], http://www.davidfaure.fr Sponsored by Nokia to work on KDE, incl. Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org).
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