Setting a protocol handler

[Rex Dieter]

On 03/26/2012 08:11 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I'm trying to set up qbittorrent to handle magnet: links. I've searched
> high and low in KDE Settings to no avail. Note that these links don't
> usually have a distinguishing file extension. Instead they're flagged as
> magnet:... in the URL.

> Why is this stuff so hard?

Any app that can support magnet links needs to have 
x-scheme-handler/magnet listed among supported MimeTypes in their 
.desktop file, e.g.:

MimeTypes=...;x-scheme-handler/magnet;

that's it.  not too hard was it? :)

-- rex