Re: Reducing the number of special uris in gnome

[Bruce Robert Pocock <brpocock 10east com>]

On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 00:19, Stephen Browne wrote:
> If by "not expose them in the ui", you mean not displaying the uri
> schemes in the location bar then I agree with you.
> The uri schemes are an implementation detail that should be hidden and
> the special locations should be represented by (localisable?) strings
> that mean more to the user.  e.g. "Preferences" which maps to
> all-preferences: internally but is never exposed to the user.

aside: Experimented with Win32 Explorer today. You can actually type "My
Computer" into the Location: bar in Explorer to go there. That's
actually rather neat...