FYI, in recent PR discussions[1] we've acknowledged that we should make it easier to allow different URL schemes into snapd and I laid out some criteria/process ideas on how to make this happen, and I applied that criteria to the zoommtg PR and it was merged quickly. I discussed with Samuele that we could make this go even faster if we codify things for reviewers as well as some other implementation details.
In short, today, the snapd team is in a position to be more responsive with adding new url schemes and we'll make it so we can go even faster. For people who want snapd to support new URL schemes I suggest doing one of: * if you are able, submitting a PR to snapd[2] for the URL schemes you are interested in * filing a new bug[3] for the requested url scheme (eg, "add support for url scheme ...") and then someone can take a look Thanks [1]https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/7731#pullrequestreview-362900171 [2]https://github.com/snapcore/snapd [3]https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+filebug -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps Status in snapd: Triaged Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/blob/7952972d4897e085030b288e44dc98b824f6723a/userd/launcher.go#L55 snapd has a hard-coded list of allowed URL schemes. Currently that is limited to "http", "https", "mailto", "snap". We have a number of applications in the store which are trying to use protocol handlers outside this scope and break when that's not possible. e.g. Telegram Desktop: tg:/ Github Desktop: git:/ IRCCloud Desktop: irc:/ These are the ones I know of, others may also be affected. Can we please at least expand the list to those that we know of, and perhaps research other popular protocol handlers? Ideally we wouldn't have a whitelist, because this delays our ability to land new applications with as-yet unknown url schemes. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
