[arch-general] associations for chromium

[Sergey Manucharian]

Hi Thomas,

Excerpts from Thomas Jost's message of Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:10 +0100:

> Le 29/11/2010 03:26, Sergey Manucharian a écrit :
> > I wonder if somebody could already figure out how to handle file and
> > protocol associations for Chromium. For those who use a DE like
> > KDE/Gnome most probably everything works out of box. There is an
> > article in wiki how to use chromium with no DE [1]. It suggest to
> > use mimeo and xdg-utils-mimeo, but it simply does not work (at
> > least in my case).
> 
> It works for me with mimeo and xdg-utils-mimeo (I'm using Chromium
> with Awesome WM -- no DE). You have to use ~/.config/mimeo.conf to
> store your associations, and to use at least mimeo 2010.11.02 (first
> version that integrates my patch to use this file by default).
> 
> Here is my mimeo.conf:
> 
> -----------------8<-----------------
> # Spotify URLs
> /usr/local/bin/spotify %U
>   ^http://open.spotify.com/
>   ^spotify:
> 
> # Regular URLs
> /usr/bin/chromium
>   ^http://
>   ^https://
>   ^ftp://
> 
> # E-mails
> /usr/bin/thunderbird -compose
>   ^mailto:
> -----------------8<-----------------
> 
> This is enough to have working Spotify URLs. I guess that for VLC and
> MMS streams, you would just need the following:
> 
> -----------------8<-----------------
> /usr/bin/vlc
>   ^mms:
> -----------------8<-----------------
> 
> To test mimeo, you should first try by running directly "mimeo
> mms://my-url" in a shell, then "xdg-open mms://my-url", and finally
> from Chromium.
> 
> Does such a setup work for you? If it doesn't, could you please post
> your mimeo.conf here?

Thank you for the information! I trusted the wiki page and haven't
looked into the mimeo code: wiki states the conf file is
"~/.mime.types"- and, of course, it didn't work for me. Now everything
is ok. Also I have fixed the wiki page for Chromium.

Another question - why Chromium depends on gconf? IMHO that dependency
could be optional. 

Thanks again,
Sergey