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no way to configure uri schemes handling

Submitted by Jérémy Lal

Assigned to Nick Schermer

Link to original bug (#6360)

Description

Here's an example that relates the problem :

  • chromium-browser uses xdg-open when unknown (magnet:) uri schemes are opened
  • xdg-open uses exo-open
  • exo-open does not know what to do and launch the web browser...

I don't think it's a bug in chromium : using xdg-open is legitimate, and one expects xdg-open to call exo-open in xfce (it calls gnome-open in gnome). It would be very nice exo's handling of uri schemes be configurable, so one could associate any uri scheme to any desktop rc file, instead of giving back the responsability to open the right url to the browser.

Regards, Jérémy.

Version: 0.3.106

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