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[Josh Leverette <coder543@xxxxxxxxx>]

What about contractor <http://elementaryos.org/docs/contractor>?


On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Rasmus Eneman <Rasmus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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Sincerely,
    Josh