Setting a protocol handler

[Rex Dieter]

On 03/29/2012 11:24 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> OK, I consulted ktorrent upstream on this, and it seems it gets the
> magnet protocol handling via /usr/share/kde4/services/magnet.protocol
> which is a (imo) deprecated way of doing it (vs. the setting
> MimeTypes=x-scheme-handler/magnet way).
>
> A secondary issue specific to our current ktorrent builds is that we
> still build it with kio_magnet support, which upstream currently does
> not recommend.
>
> So, I'll see if I can sort out the mess, and come up with something that
> works better.

OK, I think I found a bug in xdg-settings too:

This seems to work:
  xdg-mime default qBittorrent.desktop x-scheme-handler/magnet


-- rex