Re: run dialog vs gnome_vfs_url_show

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 14:03, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 13:59, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> > ???CL[2A(???x

> > > On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 11:19, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Now we just need to set up http+https to use epi by default.
> > > 
> > > So, setting epiphany as the default handler for the http: scheme
> > > requires adding a few new keys to the desktop_gnome_url_handlers.schemas
> > > file, and this file is translated. Doing this means a string change, and
> > > we're frozen. This string isn't really visible except in gconf-editor,
> > > but its still a string change.
> > > 
> > > What do we do about this?
> > 
> > I think we should really do that, even if those strings are not
> > translated (they are only schema strings), otherwise, clicking on
> > http:// links will fail by default in a lot of programs (evolution comes
> > to mind)
> 
> They shouldn't *fail* per se. If there is no http handler gnome-vfs will
> do a "stat" on the uri to get the mimetype of the document. If its then
> a html page it will launch epi, since that handles html pages by
> default. However, there are various problems with gnome-vfs doing
> synchronous i/o in this way. Plus, i think it makes sense to open images
> on http in epi, and not an image viewer.

However, both in rh and mdk beta testing we have seen issues with http
links not working without http handlers, and the way our
browser-selector ui works is by setting a http handler, so it just makes
sense to change this.

Permission to add some strings?

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