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

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 19:25 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 08.07.2005, 18:32 +0200 schrieb Alexander Larsson:

> I don't see why we shouldn't offer external apps as a fallback if
> Nautilus can't display an URI. People obviously want [1,2] this feature.
> The onliest reason why one would like to see why displaying a particular
> location by Nautilus failed is for debugging purposes, and since we
> (hooray for OSS!) have printf debugging, there is IMHO no reason to
> display this dialog if we haven't utilized all available funds for doing
> what the user wants - displaying an URI.

Given that the location bar is pretty hidden these days I think
extremely few people will try to use this feature. Maybe one in ten
thousand or so. Not adding this feature doesn't hurt these people much
(its a small feature and they can use the run dialog which does it
better).

However, if we add this feature the primary feature of the location bar,
namely entering a directory, will be hurt, since the error dialogs and
behaviour when accidentally entering a file name or a non-existing
directory name will be confusing.

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