[haiku-development] Re: Webpositive handling of URLs and downloaded files
- From: Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:00:27 +0100
On 2013-11-19 at 14:54:30 [+0100], Dario Casalinuovo <b.vitruvio@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> I'm just curious, and maybe it's a unasked question, what is the current
> plan to handle urls such as irc://? Most browsers out there opens the
> preferred irc client, but i have the impression that it should be someway
> supported by filetypes.
This will be handled by the Services Kit at some point, but I'm not sure
how yet. I'm not sure it can be connected to Filetypes, mapping an URL
prefix to an app is different from mapping a file to an app.
>
> And what about pkgs? Is there any plan for installing them automatically,
> or is this supposed that the work will be done by the user? (ergo copy the
> hpkg into config/packages). Maybe the best way would be to allow the user
> select if the file should be opened after downloaded or not, and if it's,
> the program should rely on filetypes to do it. If my considerations are
> correct...i would open some tickets if not present already...
For now they open in Expander, but yes, I think installing them would make
more sense. Expander support can only be useful as a debug tool, and if we
leave it this way, we will end up with users trying to extract them to
/boot.
--
Adrien.
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