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. Here is the upstream tracker bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=631433&hide_resolved=0 Let's take an example: Yelp. If you go the tracker bug, you'll find a bug for yelp: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=631678 We need to register yelp for the x-scheme-handler/ghelp, x-scheme-handler/info and x-scheme-handler/man MIME types. So here are the steps we'll do: a) branch yelp in the build service (osc branch GNOME:Factory yelp) b) look for the source of the desktop file in the tarball. In this case, this is yelp.desktop.in.in. c) add the MIME types to the MimeType key. If there's no such key, create one. For yelp, there's no such key, so we create one: MimeType=x-scheme-handler/ghelp;x-scheme-handler/info;x-scheme-handler/man; d) make sure that the Exec line has %u or %U as argument. This is required to accept the URI that has to be opened. %u is for only one URI, and %U is for multiple URI. In the case of yelp, we probably want %u, and we see that the Exec line doesn't have %u nor %U, so we add %u. e) to make sure you were right to do this, manually simulate the opening of such an URI. Call "yelp ghelp:evince" and see if it works fine. (We replaced %u with ghelp:evince). f) it's also important to make sure that simply calling the Exec line by removing %u or %U works. For example, if yelp needs --open to open a URI, you would use "yelp --open %u". But you have to check that "yelp --open" doesn't fail and just launches yelp. If it doesn't, then it will be a bit more complex and I suggest for now to just report in the bug that yelp needs to be adapted. f) create a patch of these changes, and submit it in bugzilla, as well as in the build service Additionally, we need someone to also patch totem with the two patches that were committed in git for this: http://git.gnome.org/browse/totem/commit/?id=74833ef98e515104a5ef10b0e59af0b... http://git.gnome.org/browse/totem/commit/?id=b337849b174efd6b11304ddcdd3cfda... There will be other apps to patch, that are not tracked in the upstream bug. Looking at what I have in gconf, we probably want to patch the desktop file for firefox (to support ftp and http) and transmission (to support magnet). We could also patch xchat (but it needs to be done carefully -- I'll let that as an exercice to the reader). Thanks, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org