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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Passing additional parameters to a mime type handler
From:       Fred Schaettgen <kde.sch () ttgen ! net>
Date:       2005-04-11 19:07:30
Message-ID: 200504112107.30174.kde.sch () ttgen ! net
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Hi all,

Is there a way to pass more than just an URL to a mime type handler when 
opening a file?
I guess we'd need something like this to let viewer applications jump 
instantly to the position of a match when I click a file in the search 
results of kfind. 
Given that kfind already knows the structure of a file already, it could tell 
the viewer to open the file directly on page 10, where the text was found. 
Also the search function of the viewer itself could be intialized with a 
suitable string, so that I can move seemless from search across files to 
searching inside a file.

If there is no good solution for the problem already, then could we introduce 
a new option for application's desktop files to specify additional 
parameters? 
Like this for instance:
  X-KDE-ExecParameter=<URI>,<parameter name>
If kfind knows about a parameter type with the URI http://foobar/pagenumber 
(which might translate to "base-10 ascii number with the semantics of a page 
number") and an application supports the same parameter type, the appliation 
could be started with a page number as a parameter.
The 'parameter name' and the actual value of the parameter could simply be 
appended to the command line. Does this make any sense? Or is there even a 
good way to do something like that with what we have already?

thanks
Fred


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Fred Schaettgen
kde.sch@ttgen.net
 
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