there should be something on #Linux for opening links in native apps. something standardized.
not based on url matching, because how do you match against all peertube instances? you can't.
use cases:
opening matrix links in native applications
opening videos with mpv
downloading videos with youtube-dl
etc
is there a standard for this? i recall something about a browser that did this but i can't remember its name...
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@grainloom I think you kind of need a specific url scheme for that to work. matrix:// is sort of being worked on but not a priority, it could match on https://matrix.to/ links for now
@f0x ok i guess the url scheme is separate from the peertube thing.
but my point stands, this stuff needs to be determined by page content in at least one important use case.
@f0x
this is _not_ for websites to implement, this does _not_ assume that websites _want_ to be opened in native apps, this is a hack to phase out webshit.
@f0x
> not based on url matching, because how do you match against all peertube instances? you can't.
there is no guarantee that a URL scheme is only used by one type of service.
the system should be pessimistic and assume that it might very well have to fall back to looking at the site's contents.
youtube-dl for example can open videos embedded on webpages. for that, it has to scan the HTML.