Amarok urls, first (working) draft

Big O illogical1 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 23 22:35:22 CET 2008


On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Bart Cerneels <bart.cerneels at kde.org> wrote:
> I wonder if this can be extended to allow more then just amarok://
> urls to be handled. Using a simple function to convert any url to an
> internal amarok:// action. It would be a simple way to add support for
> things like pcast:// itunes:// and other urls to add podcast channels.
afaik there is no itunes:// just itms:// which is for the itunes music store.

> We could even make those conversion functions scriptable so handlers
> can be added from GHNS.
>
> Bart
>
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Jeff Mitchell
> <kde-dev at emailgoeshere.com> wrote:
>> Nikolaj Hald Nielsen wrote:
>>>> So the idea is that the ALT-F2 runners could use this?
>>>>
>>>> Or whats your use-case for this.
>>>
>>> No the name Runner does not imply that. It is simply a similar concept
>>> internally.
>>>
>>> I have about 100 usecases for this, and after talking to a few people
>>> in IRC the other day, I think there are many more.
>>
>> I can also see this being useful for a first-run tutorial.  Instead of
>> manually poking all different parts of Amarok code to activate things,
>> we can much more simply activate various URLs which already contain the
>> code to do things.  Makes it much more maintainable over the long run.
>>
>> --Jeff
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