Re: [evolution-patches] Re: [Evolution] Patch to handle "file://" uri in Mail-component.

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 11:15 -0400, Joe Shaw wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 11:04 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > why can't beagle just be fixed to use maildir:// uris? as NotZed said,
> > file:// is too generic to work properly.
> 
> Because maildir:// is too specific to work properly. :)

You already have determined it is a maildir file, otherwise you wouldn't
be using evolution or kmail to show it.

Evolution (nor kmail for that matter) is not a file browser; it
shouldn't be looking at generic file uri's to determine what to do with
them.

> Beagle just picks up the files on disk, and the right way to reference a
> file on disk is with a file URI.  Mime types should be used to
> distinguish files on the file system, not some arbitrary URI scheme.

But you're adding another arbitrary layer into the file url too, so it
isn't just a file url anymore, so that argument falls down.

Who would have maildir files they care about in locations they aren't
acesssing through evolution already, if they want evolution to access
them?