Bug 94191

Summary:	URI with substitutions for Type=Link
Product:	desktop-file-utils	Reporter:	khazarian <khazarian>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Hans Petter Jansson <hpj>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description khazarian 2016-02-17 11:42:32 UTC

Extend Type=Link to handle online internet applications (also known as Web App and Webapp) that are to be used with web browsers.

Example launcher by Mr. Giles Atkinson.

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.1
Type=Link
NoDisplay=false
Name=KiwiIRC
Comment=Chat over the Internet Relay Chat network
Link=https://irc.freedesktop.org/server/%u
Link=https://irc.freedesktop.org/handle/%s
Icon=kiwiirc
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/irc;
Actions=Nickname;Register;MOTD; #actions might be useful

For further reading, see:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2016-January/013629.html
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2016-January/013634.html

Comment 1 khazarian 2016-02-17 11:44:53 UTC

Please change the Product field of this bug report, if needed.

Comment 2 Emmanuele Bassi (:ebassi) 2016-02-17 12:14:09 UTC

Re-assigning to the right product.

Comment 3 khazarian 2016-03-25 14:40:26 UTC

This would also be useful to be used as bookmarklet.

Liferea ATOM/RSS Feed Reader has an option to bookmark URLs to online bookmarking services (e.g. Bookie), social networks (e.g. GNU Social and pump.io) and news websites (e.g. Slashdot); alas these entries are hard-coded into Liferea and, thus hardening on end-users to submit contribution to other services, let alone some services are decentralized (e.g. Bookie, GNU Social and pump.io) and may be available on different servers.

Allowing URIs with substitutions for Type=Link would ease this task and also on coding.

Comment 4 GitLab Migration User 2018-11-12 15:15:30 UTC

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