[maemo-developers] Fremantle: Opening URLs and local files

[From: Piñeiro]

From: Claudio Saavedra <csaavedra at igalia.com>

> El jue, 17-09-2009 a las 12:15 +0200, Thomas Perl escribió:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > What is the canonical way of opening a browser and the media player
> > (or more general: opening a URL and opening a local file) from code
> > on Fremantle?

In Fremantle you usually use the library hildonmime, and probably you
are asking about this function:

/**
 * hildon_mime_open_file:
 * @con: The D-BUS connection to use.
 * @file: A %const @gchar pointer URI to be opened (UTF-8). 
 *
 * This function opens a file in the application that has
 * registered as the handler for the mime type of the @file.
  ...

This allows you to ask to open a file, and libhildonmime will take
care of use the correct application (the applications register itself
using this library, something like "hey, I can open this mime file").

In the same case, AFAIK, you can use hildonmime to ask which
applications or actions, you can use with a uri (local file and so
on). This could be useful if you want, for example, open the typical
"open with..." pop up. Check hildon_uri_get_actions for this.

I hope this helps.

> gtk_show_uri() should work in theory, but I don't know if it does in
> practice.

As far as I know, most of the Fremantle apps are not using that
(although a good question would be "why not?").

BR

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