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[Thomas Voß <thomas.voss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 8:28 PM, Michał Sawicz
<michal.sawicz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> W dniu 18.07.2013 20:20, Thomas Voß pisze:
>> My last status on this is that we are going to have a URL handler
>> binary that apps can register with, much like for example on iOS. With
>> that, Jamie's web-browser example is easily solvable, and so are more
>> sophisticated use-cases like gallery://albums/birthday/cake.png. Not
>> sure if it's DBus or not, but I'm very much in favor of doing URL
>> handling as opposed to mime-type handling.
>
> Problem is when you start dealing with remote content - at that point
> you need mime-type as well, or you can go for:
>
> gallery+http://host/path.png
>
> What if you don't know/care what kind of app should handle, say, a
> downloaded PDF file?
>

Good point and I do agree in general, However, once we allow mime-type
handling we break the strict per-app siloing of content.

Not sure how to solve that issue for mime-type handling.

Thomas

> I basically think we need to be able to handle both URI and MIME,
> depending on the use case.
>
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> Michał (Saviq) Sawicz <michal.sawicz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Canonical Services Ltd.
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