On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 17:02 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > Overheard at work: > "It looks like Firefox 3 made the decision to query the OS for mime / > url handling.
Correct. It seemed the sensible thing to do I was told a few weeks back, and I agreed. > For instance, if we set the default picasa:// url > handler in GConf, then Firefox 3 knows what to do. The problem is, > GConf is Firefox's concept of "the OS" on Unix. (they say KDE didn't > help with integration and prefer Konqueror anyway) Heh. Don't tell the KDE 4 crew that. ;-) > There's going to be some users with only KDE or running XFCE or what > not, who are out of luck because they don't have GConf." > > Gaah. Is there a single underlying mime type database that both gnome and kde > can refer to? It's time, past time really, to define one. It shouldn't be at a level below the desktops. We want something that any desktop interface can access. Considering how fundamental mime/url is for any Internet-enabled operating system, it strikes that someone, somewhere must have already done some work on this. Steven -- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Editor in Chief Practical Technology http://www.practical-tech.com _______________________________________________ Desktop_architects mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop_architects
