Default handlers for protocols (http, mailto etc.)

[Jonas Geiregat]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:

>Fabian Neumann wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>is it possible to register an application for a protocol in Xfce (like 
>>http->Firefox, mailto->Thunderbird, xmmp->Gajim) or do we depend on 
>>gconf in this case?
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>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.
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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.