Re: run dialog vs gnome_vfs_url_show

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 10:47, Anders Carlsson wrote:
> mån 2003-08-25 klockan 10.38 skrev Alexander Larsson:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > I'm not sure what to do about this. The reason we want to really know
> > the type of a http: uri is so that we can do the right thing wrt the
> > type of file it points to. If its an image, we want to open it in eog,
> > not the web browser. Maybe this isn't all that important, and we should
> > revive the handler for the whole http scheme. Doing that brings back an
> > age-old bug though, it means desktop links to a webdav directory ends up
> > in the webbrowser instead of the file manager.
> > 
> 
> Doing this sounds like the best approach to me. We could add dav:// in
> addition, which would have nautilus as its default handler.
> 
> Doesn't sound like 2.4 material though...

http://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes

This does list dav: as the webdav uri scheme, so I'm about to commit
this change:

Index: modules/default-modules.conf
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gnome/gnome-vfs/modules/default-modules.conf,v
retrieving revision 1.42
diff -u -p -r1.42 default-modules.conf
--- modules/default-modules.conf        24 Apr 2003 15:46:22 -0000     
1.42
+++ modules/default-modules.conf        25 Aug 2003 09:12:35 -0000
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ gzip ugzip: gzip
 
 http: http
 
+dav: http
+
 pipe: vfs-pipe
 
 #efs: vefs

Which makes dav: uris work. Then we just have to document that dav: is
our prefered way of referencing webdav locations.

Now we just need to set up http+https to use epi by default.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
 Alexander Larsson                                            Red Hat, Inc 
                   alexl redhat com    alla lysator liu se 
He's a bookish chivalrous dog-catcher plagued by the memory of his family's 
brutal murder. She's a sharp-shooting psychic femme fatale in the witness 
protection program. They fight crime!