Re: naughty gnome2 desktop

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 7 Jun 2002, Bastien Nocera wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 14:46, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > 
> > Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> writes: 
> > > > 	Yes - please commit the fix; but only on the gnome-2-0-0 branch, we
> > > > want a proper fix for HEAD I think if you can work on that.
> > > 
> > > We most certainly do. That patch will make clicking on start-here a lot 
> > > slower, since it will launch a new nautilus each time you click on it. 
> > 
> > Maybe a better short-term-hack fix is in the panel, special-case the
> > start-here: URI scheme. (Presumably file: is already special-cased to
> > go to Nautilus? or is that because libgnome has a pref for file:
> > handler?)
> > 
> > It'll suck if start-here icon opens slowly.
> 
> On my system there's hardly any difference in speed between the two
> methods.

The reason we made the -link desktop files is because it was really slow 
starting nautilus on every click. Maybe our startup times are better these 
days, but i doubt they are as fast as just reading a url.

> As we're already able to rename links drop from nautilus onto the
> desktop, meaning we don't have to create the links by hand anymore, I
> think the best is for nautilus and the panel to create desktop files
> that clearly mark nautilus as the handler.

I don't quite understand what you mean here.

> It's so annoying not to be able to have a link to a webdav directory in
> the panel, without having to edit by hand.

Ah, if you mean if you have a webdav link in the panel it launches 
mozilla, since it's a http address.

> That would also fix the problem with nautilus trying to handle http URIs
> as webdav when mozilla/galeon/whatever the user configured should really
> be launched.

I generally dislike this solution. Links should be links, not something 
that forces you to open using a specific app. It is both slower and less 
flexible (no other app can understand the nautilus launcher, but other 
apps, such as konqueror, knows about links).

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