Support passing URIs as command line arguments

[Jacalz]

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• I have searched the issue tracker for open issues that relate to the same feature, before opening a new one.
• This issue only relates to a single feature. I will open new issues for any other features.

Is your feature request related to a problem?

We only support passing files though the command-line at the moment. It would be good to also support passing (or switch to) use one or multiple uris.

Describe the solution you'd like to see.

We should add the proper code to handle being passed a uri and also then replace %F with %U in the desktop file on Linux and BSD.

[GalihFajar]

Hi @Jacalz, I'd like to work on this. But first I need more clarifications on the expected solution to the problem. The expected solution that I'm thinking of is one of the followings:

1. Add multiple file send option -> prompting user with an entry and let user to fill it with multiple file paths.
2. Add an option which will allow user to select file, similar to what existing file selection. But since AFAIK Fyne doesn't yet support multiple files selection, the selection will reappear until user confirming that these selected files are ought to be sent.

I'm currently prototyping on the second solution, which I'd be happy to continue to work on (and submit the PR) if it's the solution you are expecting—though I'll be okay if the first one is selected 😄 .

Thanks!

[Jacalz]

Hi @GalihFajar. Thanks for looking into this. This issue is not necessarily as big as you might think. Sorry, I realise now that the description might not be entirely explaining everything.

We already support passing in files and folders as command line parameters. This is just about supporting that those file uris that begin with file://. I.e. changing the desktop file to use %U instead of %F (one or more uris instead of one or more file paths).

[Jacalz]

I don’t necessarily know if there is much to gain from implementing this to be honest. I’d recommend you to have a look at something else if you don’t mind ;)

[GalihFajar]

Ah sure, thanks for the confirmation. Will look into something else.