Re: friendly suggestion

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <marco gnome org>]

On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 04:42, David Adam Bordoley wrote:
> Marco Writes:
> >On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 21:38, Eric Wood wrote:
> >> I'm not on the mail list but I have some friendly suggestions for
> >> Epiphany (Currently using Fedora with Epiphany 1.0.4): 
> >> 
> >> 1. The Download page needs to remove Redhat and add Fedora:
> >> ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/
> >
> >Stefan, could you do this please ?
> 
> Probably don't want to remove redhat (there are plenty of existing users), 
> just want to add fedora. :P 

The current link is pointing to rawhide ftp ...

> >> 2. Can't click on a mailto: link.  Needs to ask for association to an
> >> email program such as Evolution.
> >> 3. Can't click on irc://irc.gnome.org:6667/epiphany, again same reason
> >> as #2.
> 
> > Hrm, it's bad we slipped this so long, considering we make integration
> > one of our strong points ...
> > Could you post a report on bugzilla.gnome.org for this ? I'll get it
> > fixed ASAP.
> 
> last time i checked the there wasn't a way to open the file types capplet 
> from the command so that you could just add a a scheme handler. This does 
> exist for file types (as used in nautilus and open applet). I filed a bug a 
> long while ago about this too. 
> 
> Regarding the irc handler, I think we should just add a default handler for 
> this to the gnome-vfs schemas, though who to default to is a sticky problem. 
> The best bet is x-chat in terms of actually being used by large number of 
> users, but from a desktop standpoint gnomechat is much more up our alley 
> though. 

My plan was to add a protocol handlers.

mailto: evolution, balsa (others ?)
irc: gnome-chat, xchat

Not that the order is irrelevant, vfs just pick the first one in
alphabetic order ...
Just noticed that a mail reader tab has been added to the applications
capplet, maybe that's enough for mailto:, need to check.

Marco