Re: gconf vs. gnome-vfs for default web browser

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

jacob berkman <jacob ximian com> writes:
> in fixing the default apps crapplet to work, i thought that the right
> thing to do for the default web browser would be to set the default
> text/html application to what the user chose, and have gnome_url_show()
> first check the protocol handlers in gconf like it does, then instaed of
> using the default stuff in gconf, use the default app for text/html in
> gnome-vfs.
> 
> this way, opening html files in nautilus would do the thing the user
> expects, and would be easy to configure.
> 
> anyone forsee any problems with this?
> 

It seems much cleaner to me to use the MIME system for all the default
applications stuff. I always thought we didn't use it just because we
wanted to sometimes pick the app based on protocol instead of the kind
of data?

I really haven't looked at any of this at all, but that's what I
thought the issue was.

Havoc