Re: [PATCH] Re: Unable to browse web pages from nautilus

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 17:43 +0200, David Christian Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 15:24 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 11:24 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> > > Am Dienstag, den 28.06.2005, 10:18 +0200 schrieb Markus Bertheau:
> > > > Dnia 28-06-2005, Di o godzinie 08:55 +0200, Baptiste Mille-Mathias
> > > > napisał(a):
> > > > 
> > > > > Nautilus doesn't support anymore this feature. This is now the Web
> > > > > browser's job.
> > > > > I closed your bug.
> > > > 
> > > > I think you misunderstood Thomas. He doesn't want the web page to be
> > > > displayed in nautilus itself, but for nautilus to start the application
> > > > that handles the http protocol.
> > > 
> > > The attached patch should help.
> > 
> > Is this sort of behaviour actually needed? Do we really expect people to
> > type in filenames in the location bar in the filemanager?
> 
> It's sort of nice to do so, because tab completion allows you to access
> the right file easily via the location bar. Maybe a little geeky, but
> it's not drawback for other users.

For geeks the run dialog works for typing a filename too. Just alt-f2 +
filename (with completion). Doesn't even need a nautilus window around.

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