Re: URIs vs. half-baked URIs

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On Friday, August 3, 2001, at 09:57  AM, Owen Taylor wrote:

> A place like the URL line in Nautilus _needs_ to accept unencoded
> 'URLS'. If I call a directory 'Pictures+Icons', I should _not_ be
> expected to type in:
>
>  file://home/otaylor/Pictures%2bIcons
>
> I think when the user types in an URL, you should escape anything
> isn't valid for an URL.
>
> Regards,
>                                         Owen
>
> (Harder question: should the URL line in Nautilus _unescape_ when
> displaying the text? For some things the current escaped display is
> basically unreadable; however, if you want to let people
> cut-and-paste from the line, then unescaping might be evil.)

We considered this carefully during Nautilus development. Try out what we 
currently have and see if you like it.

    -- Darin