Add custom browser or cli command

[leancode]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I use "Web Apps" on Mint to organise all my web apps and they all run in their individual contexts. These are not detected by Browsers unfortunately.
E.g. Microsoft Teams has been set up and the desktop shortcut contains the following:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Teams Microsoft
Comment=Web App
Exec=brave-browser --app="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/join-a-meeting" --class=WebApp-TeamsMicrosoft6971 --name=WebApp-TeamsMicrosoft6971 --user-data-dir=/home/dom/.local/share/ice/profiles/TeamsMicrosoft6971
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Icon=web-microsoft
Categories=GTK;WebApps;
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml_xml;
StartupWMClass=WebApp-TeamsMicrosoft6971
StartupNotify=true
X-WebApp-Browser=Brave Browser
X-WebApp-URL=https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/join-a-meeting
X-WebApp-CustomParameters=
X-WebApp-Navbar=false
X-WebApp-PrivateWindow=false
X-WebApp-Isolated=true

Describe the solution you'd like
If the rules page would allow me to add my own command like e.g. that would do it. If it could be detected even better:
brave-browser --app="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/join-a-meeting" --class=WebApp-TeamsMicrosoft6971 --name=WebApp-TeamsMicrosoft6971 --user-data-dir=/home/dom/.local/share/ice/profiles/TeamsMicrosoft6971

Describe alternatives you've considered
I have not found any alternative way to implement this

Additional context
N/A

[liias]

Hey @leancode

As a first step - what happens if you edit the .desktop file manually and change MimeType of that Teams desktop file to

MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml_xml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;

and then do a refresh inside Browsers app

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Will also throw Mint's webapp manager python script as a reference for myself here - https://github.com/linuxmint/webapp-manager/blob/master/usr/lib/webapp-manager/common.py

[leancode]

Yes, that makes it show up and is a working workaround. Most certainly a step in the right direction. Great!

[ZeronoFreya]

Agreed, Windows also needs it.

[Overbryd]

Hi,

I have another use case for this on macOS, as I am running browsers in a virtual machine.

I would like Browsers to open a command line utility.
Therefore I would welcome being able to set an arbitrary command to be opened for an url.
I created myself an Apple Script which opens links in the browser inside the guest VM.

The following script can be called $ remotebrowser https://google.com and it will open https://google.com inside the default browser of the VM:

#!/usr/bin/osascript

on run argv
  set remoteMachine to "eppc://vm1.local"
  tell application "Finder" of machine remoteMachine to open location (item 1 of argv)
end run

If Browsers could support opening links to the remotebrowser executable in my PATH, this would really make this setup very convenient.