Re: Unable to open any files through VFS in nautilus 2.8

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 00:57 -0400, Dave Ahlswede wrote:
> I've just noticed that, since I upgraded to GNOME 2.8, I can't open
> files on any VFS protocol except for file:/// from nautilus. If I invoke
> the program from the command line with a VFS URL dragged over from
> Nautilus, it works fine, but if I click the file in Nautilus itself, I
> always get the error 
> 
> "Couldn't display "proto:///filename". Nautilus has no installed viewer
> capable of displaying the file."
> 
> I suspect it has something to do with the new MIME system, and something
> not getting transferred over quite properly. Any thoughts on what to do
> to fix it?

Do the desktop files for the apps have %u (or %U) in the exec line?
Thats needed for nautilus to understand that they handle uris.

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