[Desktop_architects] Firefox and mime type handling is gconf specific :-(

Aaron J. Seigo aseigo at kde.org
Tue Jul 1 17:15:38 PDT 2008


On Tuesday 01 July 2008, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > Gaah.  Is there a single underlying mime type database that both gnome
> > and kde can refer to?
>
> For MIME type there is, however, as far as I know, it only covers MIME
> type, not protocols or concepts (e.g. "preferred terminal")

right. this particular issue has nothing to do with MIME types, for which we 
*do* share a specification.

this is about protocol definition. in KDE we have .desktop format files that end 
in .protocol that define these.

it looks like we need another spec on fd.o for defining protocol handlers.

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