Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (60 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 12 October 2010 03:45:21 Vincent Untz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We're going to ship glib 2.28 in openSUSE 11.4, since 2.28 should be out
> in December.
>
> There's one change that we must prepare for, though: the way URI scheme
> handlers are registered changed. Before, applications used to register
> themselves in gconf (see /desktop/gnome/url-handlers). The new glib
> won't support that anymore and will use the MIME type system.
>
> See Bastien's post for some more background:
>  http://www.hadess.net/2010/10/new-control-center-and-you.html
>
> What does it mean for us? It means that we have to patch various
> packages for this, and the good news is that by doing this, we can help
> upstream. It's really easy to do, and I'm looking for volunteers :-)
>
> Below are some instructions. It's a bit long. And it's late here, so
> maybe they won't be really clear to everyone ;-) But just ask if you
> want to help and face an issue.

I suggest to move this to the wiki as part of further GNOME Jobs if nobody 
picks it up directly,

Great writeup, thanks!

Andreas
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