Setting a protocol handler

[Rex Dieter]

On 03/29/2012 11:33 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 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

oh, and remove
/usr/share/kde4/services/magnet.protocol

-- rex