[Nautilus-list] Re: magic desktop URIs

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com> writes: 
> On Tuesday, July 10, 2001, at 12:33  PM, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> >  - a VFS module that simply maps magic URIs to trees of desktop files,
> >    we have:
> >
> >       preferences:  /usr/share/control-center
> >       programs:     /etc/X11/applnk + /usr/share/gnome/apps
> >       sysconfig:    /etc/X11/sysconfig
> >       serverconfig: /etc/X11/serverconfig
> >       favorites:    ~/.gnome/apps
> >       starthere:    /etc/X11/starthere
>
> Are there issues with taking up so many URI schemes? What URI
> schemes do we own, and which ones need to be saved for uses that
> come from the W3C or elsewhere?

Yeah. I feel mildly guilty about this; but there are already things
out there such as about: and smb: and so on.

We could do desktop-folder:/starthere, desktop-folder:/preferences,
etc., but it seems to lack some of the convenience.

Maybe gnome-desktop:/starthere would be the Good Citizen thing to do?

Daniel what do you recommend for naming a new URI scheme? Is there
some sort of standard?

Havoc