Allow click packages to register as mimetype handlers

[Robert Schroll]

I could be nice to allow click packages to register as a handler for some mimetypes. This would (presumably) allow the user to open a file with the program from the file browser or from the command line with xdg-open. (Issues about apparmor access would probably also need to be addressed.)

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This doesn't need to (and shouldn't) be done in click itself. click already has support for system packages declaring hooks, so some suitable system package that consumes MIME type declarations could declare such a hook, and then click packages would be able to attach to it.

Unfortunately, I don't know where the right package to reassign this to would be. Perhaps you could ask around and try to find that out?

[Robert Schroll (rschroll)]

Well, when I asked about this on IRC, they referred me here.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Where did you ask, and whom did you talk to?

[Robert Schroll (rschroll)]

In #ubuntu-app-devel, David Planella pointed me over here. Of course, "I was just following orders" is no defense :).

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

Sorry, please ignore my last comment; I got the request wrong.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

The right place for mime/type thing is url-dispatcher, which allows handling launching various apps to handle various types of resources.