RE: gmc & cursors

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

I second this... 
except call it .url
(urls are urls... there is no reason to get all propriatary with them :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Max Karpiak [SMTP:mxk@purdue.edu]
> Sent:	Tuesday, March 30, 1999 3:33 PM
> To:	Federico Mena Quintero; gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject:	Re: gmc & cursors
> 
> Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> > This happens because of two reasons:
> > 
> >         1. The file panels do not use metadata information because it
> >            is really slow to use it on big directories or NFS-mounted
> >            homes.
> > 
> >         2. Only desktop icons know how to open URLs.
> > 
> > The former is more important.  Even if you enable customization of
> > icons in the file panels (from the preferences dialog), they won't
> > know how to open URLs.
> > 
> > This inconsistency is hard to fix at this point :-(
> 
> Ahh.. I see. Well, I think that there might be a simple fix. Why use
> metadata at all? We can ask gnome to tell us the value for the "default"
> URL handler. Simply create a shell script called something.gURL which
> calls the value for the default URL handler with the URL text.. If we
> wanted to get really sly, we could have GMC export this in an
> environment variable to the child (that way someone can change the value
> for the default URL handler, and have the change propigated correctly).
> Then things work as before. We give .gURL files their own icon, and they
> behave like they should. Now things look like they should. I can move
> the URLs between the desktop and the windows and keep the properties,
> double clicks work again, etc. This way, we don't need to use metadata
> at all.. Or, we could simply ask the powers that be in charge of the
> gnome Mime types to include a mime type for .gURL that opens a file and
> passes the text inside to a similarly written shell script.. or we could
> make the mime type's handler be:
> 	gnome-moz-remote --newwin `cat %s`
> and just make the .gURL file have the text of the URL inside.
> 
> Actually the last is probably the simplest and the cleanest. Metadata
> and special functionality is really overkill in this case, when we can
> use some slight trickiness to make things behave in a uniform way
> everywhere.
> 
> Later,
> Max
> 
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