Package: xdg-utils
Version: 1.0.2+cvs20100307-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
xdg-open currently cannot handle magnet: links.
It should probably be rewritten to recognize such links and call xdg-mime,
as in
$ xdg-mime query default application/x-bittorrent
/usr/share/applications/transmission.desktop
There is a patch online at
http://www.void.gr/kargig/blog/2012/01/24/open-magnet-urls-with-xdg-open/
but this is clearly bogus, as the application is hard-coded.
I have attempted to patch the code to use
xdg-mime query default application/x-bittorrent
My patch works on Debian in a generic desktop environment.
I find the code somewhat ugly.
The general idea is an optional second parameter to
open_generic_xdg_mime()
which, if present, is taken as the default mime type.
In addition, I had to change the code to account for the possibility
that xdg-mime returns an absolute pathname. Not beautiful, but it
seems to get the job done.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.5
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
xdg-utils depends on no packages.
Versions of packages xdg-utils recommends:
ii file 5.04-5+squeeze2 Determines file type using "magic"
ii google-chrome-stabl 19.0.1084.46-r135956 The web browser from Google
ii iceweasel [www-brow 3.5.16-15 Web browser based on Firefox
ii konqueror [www-brow 4:4.4.5-2 advanced file manager, web browser
ii lynx-cur [www-brows 2.8.8dev.5-1 Text-mode WWW Browser with NLS sup
ii mime-support 3.48-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii shared-mime-info 0.71-4 FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa
ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.2-9 WWW browsable pager with excellent
ii x11-utils 7.5+4 X11 utilities
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.5+3 X server utilities
Versions of packages xdg-utils suggests:
pn gvfs-bin <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
*** /usr/bin/xdg-open Wed Sep 15 13:08:29 2010
--- /home/nr/bin/xdg-open Sun Jun 24 22:36:13 2012
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*** 380,386 ****
open_generic_xdg_mime()
{
! filetype=`xdg-mime query filetype "$1" | sed "s/;.*//"`
default=`xdg-mime query default "$filetype"`
if [ -n "$default" ] ; then
xdg_user_dir="$XDG_DATA_HOME"
--- 380,390 ----
open_generic_xdg_mime()
{
! if [ -z "$2" ]; then
! filetype=`xdg-mime query filetype "$1" | sed "s/;.*//"`
! else
! filetype="$2"
! fi
default=`xdg-mime query default "$filetype"`
if [ -n "$default" ] ; then
xdg_user_dir="$XDG_DATA_HOME"
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*** 390,396 ****
[ -n "$xdg_system_dirs" ] || xdg_system_dirs=/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
for x in `echo "$xdg_user_dir:$xdg_system_dirs" | sed 's/:/ /g'`; do
! file="$x/applications/$default"
if [ -r "$file" ] ; then
command="`grep -E "^Exec(\[[^]=]*])?=" "$file" | cut -d= -f 2- | first_word`"
command_exec=`which $command 2>/dev/null`
--- 394,403 ----
[ -n "$xdg_system_dirs" ] || xdg_system_dirs=/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
for x in `echo "$xdg_user_dir:$xdg_system_dirs" | sed 's/:/ /g'`; do
! case $default in
! /*) file="$default" ;; # absolute pathname
! *) file="$x/applications/$default" ;; # relative pathname
! esac
if [ -r "$file" ] ; then
command="`grep -E "^Exec(\[[^]=]*])?=" "$file" | cut -d= -f 2- | first_word`"
command_exec=`which $command 2>/dev/null`
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*** 399,404 ****
--- 406,412 ----
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
exit_success
fi
+ case $default in /*) break ;; esac # no need to try again
fi
fi
done
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*** 425,430 ****
--- 433,458 ----
if [ -f /etc/debian_version ] &&
which run-mailcap 2>/dev/null 1>&2; then
+ run-mailcap --action=view "$file"
+ if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+ exit_success
+ fi
+ fi
+
+ if mimeopen -v 2>/dev/null 1>&2; then
+ mimeopen -n "$file"
+ if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+ exit_success
+ fi
+ fi
+ fi
+
+ # magnet links for a bittorrent client
+ if (echo "$1" | grep -q '^magnet:'); then
+ open_generic_xdg_mime "$1" application/x-bittorrent
+
+ if [ -f /etc/debian_version ] &&
+ which run-mailcap 2>/dev/null 1>&2; then
run-mailcap --action=view "$file"
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
exit_success
