[Epiphany] Default Applications for opening URLs

[Iain McGinniss <iainmcgin dsl pipex com>]

Hello Everyone,

Well, I seem to have got off on a bad foot already, by hitting the send 
button before I'd even written the body of the email. I promise not to 
be so careless in future: blame the Enigmail plugin in Mozilla.

I would like to make a suggestion for the next version of epiphany, 
which is to do with default applications for loading certain URLs, for 
instance IRC urls (a good example being the IRC chat link for epiphany 
on the epiphany website). As my current setup stands, I click on the 
link and I get the following error message: "Epiphany cannot handle this 
protocol, and no GNOME default handler is set". The error message is 
clear and concise, but it doesn't provide any opportunity to correct it, 
such as providing an application link to the appropriate GNOME facility 
to set the default application (if such a facility exists: I have only 
seen the GNOME application preferences tool for browser, text editor, 
mail reader etc). I believe this would be a much nicer solution to the 
problem.

I would like to continue to help with epiphany as much as my time will 
allow, as I believe it's a great browser that just plain works. You 
can't say that for many of the alternatives...

Thanks for all your time,
Iain McGinniss

P.S: apologies once again for the stray email