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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Binding an app to a protocol (KVNC)
From:       aleXXX <alexander.neundorf () rz ! tu-ilmenau ! de>
Date:       2000-04-28 16:33:36
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On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Waldo Bastian wrote:
>On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Richard Moore wrote:
>> I would like to bind the app to a protocol so that you could
>> have say:
>> vnc://my.host:display/
>> And get KVNC triggered, like the way a mailto url works. Does
>> anyone know how to do this?
>
>There is no decent way for mailto-urls currently. It's all more or less 
>ad-hoc code. I think it's all in kdelibs/kio. Feel free to turn it into a 
>decent expandable solution which meets your needs.
>
>Cheers,
>Waldo

I think something like a mimetype for hosts would be good, then apps like
ktalk, kvnc, rlogin, ... could be assigned to such a mimetype.

A directory of hosts can be created by kio_smb for now and I have some code
lying around which searches the local network for hosts (not yet finished).

Bye
Alex

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