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[Rasmus Eneman <Rasmus@xxxxxxxxx>]

I just realized that you can use the URL concept for MIME types to:
mime://image/png&file://path/to/file.png or something like that
would work well.

>Sure and in the works
Great!


2013/7/18 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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