RE: Bookmark Daemon

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Camp [mailto:dcamp@snowcrest.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 10:25 AM
> To: Fox, Kevin M; gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Re: Bookmark Daemon
> 
> 
> >Tell me what you guys think of the above stated idea. I 
> might just code it
> >if anyone thinks it might be usefull.
> I think it would be pretty neat, but you'd have to take the 
> following things
> into account:
> * The application from which the bookmark is selected should 
> have first
> crack at displaying/interpreting it.  eg A web browser may 
> want to view an
> image instead of having ee do it.  If the application doesn't 
> want to deal
> with it, it can be opened with the URL handler or whatever.
> * MIME types would be useful for file:// urls, but not for 
> http/ftp/etc.
> For example, ee does not have the ability to load files over 
> the network.
> You'd probably want to use the gnome url handler system, and 
> have file://
> urls handled by a mime type->application handler.

Does the gnome url handler system get mime types for the http protocol? For
example, if you give it the url "http://www.stuff.com/blar.gif" can you
retrieve the mime type for it? If it can, then the program can decide wether
it wants to try to handle it. If it doesn't want to handle it, it can pass
it back to a gnome url function to open the url with the correct program.
That would work if the functions exist...

>  That way,
> http://whatever.org/something.gif would be opened by netscape 
> (which has
> networking capabilities) but file://home/dave/something.gif 
> would be opened
> by ee (or whatever else is registered to deal with image/gif).
> 
> Anyway, I think bookmarkd is a great idea, and should 
> definitely be pursued.
> 
> Cheers,
> -dave
> 
> 
> 
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