Re: Konqueror passing URL's to applications

[Jim Mahood <jmahood@advance.net>]

On Mon, 12 May 2003, Kevin Krammer wrote:

> On Monday 12 May 2003 18:49, Tom Badran wrote:
> > Is it possible to make konqueror pass urls to applications rather than
> > downloading the file and then passing the temp file location?
> > Specifically i want to pass http:// to xmms for ogg vorbis files, and
> > to mplayer for mpeg files.
> 
> The command associated with the MIME type has to include %u as a 
> parameter.
> 
> %u tells KDE that the application can handle URLs itself.
> If it is missing, KDE assumes it has to present the data as a local file.
> 
> use %U if the application can handle  list of URLs
> 
> See the Desktop Entry Standard on
> http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/index.html
> for details.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kevin
> 

Hi Kevin,

Just curious... what would result in a list of URLs?  I can't think of any
cases.

Thanks,

Jim