Re: how to create new protocol handler for irc:// ?

[Alan <alan ufies org>]

Very cool, thanks!

On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 12:13:07PM -0700, Link Dupont wrote:
> Not hard at all. The xchat binary supports the IRC URI format. Run xchat
> --help. So adding a protocol handler is just like adding any other in
> the File types and programs capplet. Add a new service, the protocol is
> irc, and for the program to run put: xchat %s. That should do it. -Link
> 
> On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 12:12 -0700, Alan wrote:
> > Howdy all.  Just wondering how one would go about creating a protocol
> > handler for something like irc?  I noticed when visiting a webpage last
> > night that they had irc://server/channel links which I thought would be
> > pretty cool to have work under gnome and be able to start up xchat with
> > that.  Is this something that you'd have to go into gnome-vfs territory
> > for, or what?
> > 
> > TIA
> > 
> > alan
> > 
> -- 
> Link Dupont <link subpop net>

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