Re: cdda:// URIs and the default handler

[Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>]

Federico Mena Quintero schrieb:

> Our default from the viewpoint of g-v-m is Totem, which looks like it
> can handle either plain device names (e.g. "totem /dev/hdc") or cdda
> uris ("totem cdda:///dev/hdc").
>
> Should we move Fedora's shell script into the mainline for
> gnome-volume-manager?  The missing piece in the puzzle is indeed not
> having a default handler for cdda URIs by default.

I see no point in using a shell script as cdda handler.
We have IMHO two options:

a) teach totem cdda:/// URIs, no matter whether a GnomeVFS module is 
installed for this.

if (g_str_has_prefix (uri_from_argv, "cdda:///"))  {
   char *p = uri_from_argv;
   uri_from_argv = g_strconcat ("file:///", uri_from_argv + strlen 
("cdda:///"), NULL);
   g_free (p);
}

?

b) teach the backend involved into the URI handlers (I think this is 
inside GnomeVFS) how to convert cdda:/// to file:///

I haven't investigated whether the GnomeVFS GConf app handler code 
support the .desktop positional parameter scheme [1]. If it does 
supports this, we could also use %F, and gnome-vfs would ensure that the 
cdda URI is converted into a file URI. Maybe this could be implemented 
in *gnome_vfs_get_local_path_from_uri.*

[1] 
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html#exec-variables