OK, I suppose I can get this working on my own system, but my main
point is: why does GTK include a function such as gtk_show_uri
which depends on a big stack of unspecified stuff? At least this
should be mentioned in the documentation. As I said before, up
till very recently one has been able to rely on GTK functions
"just working" so long as the compile-time dependencies are
satisfied.
Thats not totally true, there are optional dependencies in gtk+ before
gvfs. Things like shared memory, cups backend, etc.
But, all the gio calls *do* work even with gvfs totally absent. The only
thing that doesn't work is things involving non-local files, and I don't
understand how you expect that to ever work without depenencies.
gtk_show_uri() for instance is an excellent function to use to launch
the users default app to open a specific file, based on its mimetype.
It just feels like you want to have a cake (non-local file i/o) and not
pay for it (supply dependencies).