Re: no way to set the handler used by gnome_url_show

[Dave Camp <dave ximian com>]

On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 02:07, Luis Villa wrote:

> So, um... what's the solution here? Should libgnome use the other keys?
> Do we resurrect the url handler capplet? Should the default applications
> capplet set both sets of keys? Or should someone just point out why I'm
> an idiot and how I shouldn't be writing these types of emails at 1:00am?

So basically what happened here is that hovinen committed changes to
gnome-control-center before getting approval to commit the required
libgnome changes.

He sent a patch to libgnome to desktop-hackers sometime in january:

http://lists.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-January/msg00628.html

He got no response.  Lauris poked andersca about it recently, and
basically got the following comments:

a) It doesn't apply to current libgnome cvs
b) "type" is a bad name for the key, "enabled" would be better.
c) The schema changes accidentally removed the ghelp url handler.

So I assume that if these issues are fixed, the libgnome patch would be
accepted, and things would work again (of course a change from "type" to
"enabled" would require a similar change).

-dave