Re: GLib plans for the next cycle

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 10:43 -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, David Zeuthen wrote:

> > I could be wrong, but just briefly looking at the code it looks like
> > there is no default implementation of GDesktopAppInfoLookup in GIO,
> > there's only one in GVfs  (that looks up stuff in GConf under
> > in /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/<scheme>) so it's no surprise things
> > don't work if GVfs is not installed.
> 
> Yes, that's right.  As it's currently coded gtk_show_uri is bound
> to fail if GVfs is not present.  But more than that: it'll fail
> even if GVfs _is_ present (as it is now on my system), if GVfs
> does not in turn incorporate GConf support.  I thought I'd read
> that GConf was supposed to be deprecated, or on the way there?

I don't understand what you propose? There is no in-use non-gconf
setting for mapping default handlers for entire uri scheme. So, we
lookup none which mean we then fall back to the per-mime default.

Its entierly unreasonable to have a file:// uri handler, as that would
open *all* types of local files, overriding your per-mime specs.