Default handlers for protocols (http, mailto etc.)

[Benedikt Meurer]

Jonas Geiregat wrote:
>>For now, this is only possible in Terminal (limited to web and mail).
>>The idea is to move the helper framework to one of the Xfce core
>>libraries at some time, so other applications (e.g. the xfce-utils and
>>Thunar) can make use of this as well.
> 
> Currently most of the configuration settings are kept in ~/.config/xfce4 
> except for xfce4-session. Most of these config files are using xml. What 
> if we designed a helper framework (by that I read framework where you 
> can save settings) using xml. Here we can have a daemon running in the 
> back (like gconf) or just make a library that writes/reads those xml 
> files, problem would be file locks.

I don't see why we need a daemon for such a simple thing as helper
applications. And storing the stuff in one or several XML files doesn't
provide any advantage. That's why I used desktop files: Its easy to
extend and easy to implement. You can check the current implementation at:

http://svn.foo-projects.org/filedetails.php?repname=xfce4&path=%2Fterminal%2Ftrunk%2Fterminal%2Fterminal-helper.h
http://svn.foo-projects.org/filedetails.php?repname=xfce4&path=%2Fterminal%2Ftrunk%2Fterminal%2Fterminal-helper.c
http://svn.foo-projects.org/filedetails.php?repname=xfce4&path=%2Fterminal%2Ftrunk%2Fterminal%2Fterminal-helper-dialog.h
http://svn.foo-projects.org/filedetails.php?repname=xfce4&path=%2Fterminal%2Ftrunk%2Fterminal%2Fterminal-helper-dialog.c

Benedikt