Bug 565513 – Missing (Firefox) URL Handlers for irc://

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Bug 565513 - Missing (Firefox) URL Handlers for irc://


Summary:	Missing (Firefox) URL Handlers for irc://


Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE

Product:	empathy
Classification:	Core
Component:	General
Version:	2.24.x
Hardware:	Other All

Importance:	Normal enhancement
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	empathy-maint
QA Contact:	empathy-maint

URL:
Whiteboard:

Duplicates:	631821 (view as bug list)
Depends on:	541156
Blocks:

Reported:	2008-12-23 21:51 UTC by bubbel
Modified:	2018-05-22 13:17 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	---
GNOME version:	Unversioned Enhancement

Description bubbel 2008-12-23 21:51:05 UTC

When clicking in my browser on an IRC link, I'd like to see Empathy connecting to the IRC channel.
Same is true for xmpp/jabber chat rooms
Of course the user should have the preriquisites in plase (Login/Password etc.)

Cheers, Bubbel

Comment 1 Frederic Peters 2008-12-23 22:04:36 UTC

Bug 541156 is the request for xmpp:

Comment 2 Guillaume Desmottes 2009-06-04 12:40:13 UTC

Let focus on irc:// on this bug.

Comment 3 Frederic Peters 2009-06-04 12:48:35 UTC

For reference, those links were posted in bug 541156:
  http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-butcher-irc-url-04
  http://www.w3.org/Addressing/draft-mirashi-url-irc-01.txt
  http://www.mozilla.org/projects/rt-messaging/chatzilla/irc-urls.html

Comment 4 Frederic Peters 2010-10-10 16:12:45 UTC

*** Bug 631821 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Guillaume Desmottes 2011-11-07 10:25:42 UTC

I explained in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541156#c13 how this should be implemented.

Comment 6 Lukáš 'Spike' Polívka 2015-06-21 16:38:05 UTC

Hello dear developers,
is anyone working on this?

As Empathy is shipping as the default IM/IRC client in Fedora Workstation (and possibly other distributions using GNOME) it's a pity the integration with the desktop environment is not 100%.

Comment 7 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 13:17:31 UTC

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