Filemanager sending out file:/// URLs

File manager uses QDestktpServices::openUrl() to open files: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-filemanager-dev/ubuntu-filemanager-app/trunk/view/head:/src/plugin/folderlistmodel/dirmodel.cpp#L1314

For files it uses file:/// prefix and it is necessary.

It looks like QDestktpServices::openUrl() is translated to the URL Dispatcher.

Is it what you are talking about?

Correct, that's not a good way to open files. In general, file:/// urls
will not be handled as expected. The filemanager needs to use the
Content Hub to open files, not sending a URL to openUrl().

For opening local content, the filemanager should use the Content Hub's peer picker to choose a destination application to open the content with. However, this isn't terribly robust for an application like the filemanager than might not know the well known ContentType for a file. The filemanager will probably need to do some mapping of files to ContentType based on file extensions or some other heuristic, until the Content Hub supports mime types (which is planned).

We need to open files, is it possible to keep that until Content Hub is not ready?

How about xdg open, is it available on phablet devices?

On Mon, 2014-09-08 at 22:03 +0000, Carlos Jose Mazieri wrote:

> We need to open files, is it possible to keep that until Content Hub is
> not ready?

There's nothing to keep, it doesn't work. The only cases that'll work
today are videos in a specific directory and music in a specific
directory, and those will be dropped shortly. Otherwise there are no
files that are handled. Content hub is the solution here.

> How about xdg open, is it available on phablet devices?

No, it is not.

Carlos, any progress on this? url-dispatcher has now been updated and opening files is now broken.

Just started working on it, need to understand Content Hub's peer picker.

Fix committed into lp:ubuntu-filemanager-app at revision 307, scheduled for release in ubuntu-filemanager-app, milestone alpha-1