Extended handling of magnet links

[Aleix Pol]

On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Vladimir Perepechin
<vovochka13 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone :)
>
> I was thinking about implementing my idea
> https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=126352 .
> While digging sources i've understand that my idea was incorrect, and there
> is nothing to do with kio_magnet.
>
> My second thought was to store any additional info in mimeinfo while
> detecting it from url, but after more digging i came to mime subclasses.
> In fact,  i understand that x-scheme-handler is very simple in the way how
> it determines, but i've tried to add subclass for it ad it works like for
> any other mime-types.
>
> The only problem is: KRun dosn't looking into mime-database when working
> with x-scheme-handlers. So i came here with  the following proposition.
>
> Extend schemeHandler function of KRun.
> 1) we are looking for all mime-types that statrs with x-scheme-handler and
> has base handler in a parentMimeTypes.
> 2)If we found such mime-type - check url against globPatterns of found
> mime-type.
>
> 3) So, if we found subclassed mime-type for our url - try to find preferred
> service for it. if no preferred service was found - looking for preferred
> service for our base mime-type (as it was done before)
>
> So, it will be something like this: http://pastebin.com/Wgni5iBP
> I'm not a c++ coder, so this isn't most optimized solution, but it shows the
> idea.
>
>
> Next step:
> Just ship xml with magnet url subclass with ktorrent:
> http://pastebin.com/4crCJRLZ
>
> And add x-scheme-handler/x-magnet-btih to ktorrent.desktop MimeType list.
>
> Doing similar with other magnet handlers (like dcpp) will allow us to
> separate magnet handling by appropriate application.
>
>
> So, what do u think? Is this idea wrong? Any other ideas?

Maybe you'd like to work on the kio-magnet? I think it could be a
really cool thing to have.

Aleix