Re: run dialog vs gnome_vfs_url_show



On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 15:20, Luis Villa wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 08:20, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Need to add gnome-i18n for string requests, but it does seem like an
> important issue that really needs to be fixed.
> 
> Luis (glad someone who actually understands the vfs stuff is looking at
> this problem :)

I just checked this in. It will mean some new, non-visible mostly lame
strings. I'm sorry about this, but i wasn't able to make the strings
untranslated.

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