Re: cdda://, ftp://, news:// URIs and the default handler

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 12:19 +0200, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> 
> > We don't install a default handler for "cdda" URIs (in
> > gconf's /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/cdda/*).  That's not fine, and it's
> > the cause of this bug.
> 
> I got few bugs for SuSE Linux - clicking to news:// in firefox, ftp://
> in evolution.
> 
> All these bugs were simply fixed by adding proper
> desktop/gnome/url-handlers keys. IMHO we should enhance list of URIs
> known by core GNOME (and change control-center to allow to set them).

This is a very sticky issue. For instance, we've historically had
problems with uri handlers for ftp:// and similar uri types. When
browsing an ftp site with nautilus gftp (or whatever) would launch when
clicking on a folder. Or in the case when nautilus itself was set to
handle ftp: it made browsing very slow, because it kept re-executing
nautilus every time you clicked on a folder.

It was partly for this reason the dav:// uri method was added instead of
using http://, since http: is generally handled by a web browser.

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