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Setting up learn IDE for Chrome on Ubuntu Linux and KDE 5
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If you are trying to get an "Open" button on learn.co to launch their atom-based IDE and nothing is happening, you are probably missing a protocol handler. This is how I fixed the problem.

(Note this has only been tested on Ubuntu Linux 16.04 with KDE 5. It may not be valid for other configurations.)

  1. create a file in $(HOME)/.local/share/applications called learn-ide.desktop. It should have atleast the following contents:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Learn IDE
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/learn-ide
Exec=/usr/share/learn-ide/atom "%u"

There are no doubt other things you can add but this is the minimum.

  1. From the command line run kbuildsycoca5.

And now it should work.

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