Re: 1:30am URL handler idea

["Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)" <amadorm usm edu ec>]

Bradford Hovinen wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 01:43, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > Heya everyone...
> >
> >  Assuming that the URL handler configuration is going to stay in GNOME
> > (for the various URL types, like SMB and mailto and such), the
> > configuration is a pain for the average user.
> >
> >  What I was thinking was that applications could set (in some kind of
> > database - most likely gconf) a set of type/name/command settings. 
> > I.e., Evolution would have, for URL type "mailto", an entry with name
> > "Evolution" and command "evolution '%s'".
> >
> >  Now, in the URL configurator, for each URL type, there would be a drop
> > down box containing all the registered apps (plus one entry for custom,
> > along with a blank line, or also None).  Thus, if I had Balsa,
> > Evolution, Althea, etc. installed, I could go to the CC and just select
> > "Balsa", instead of typing in a command string (which is mean to ask of
> > newbies/idiots).
> >   
>
> This sounds like what I implemented. The only trouble is that there does
> not appear to be a way to retrieve all of the apps from the gnome-vfs
> app database, so some additional metadata will be required for this to
> work.
Is this idea integrated into the app database?  Pure genius! =)  This is
better than text files.
> >  And then, to make life even easier for said idiots, apps like Evolution
> > could pull the Windows "This application is not the default..." messages
> > (just so long as they have a "do not bother me with this crap again"
> > checkbox), so that a newbie user who installs Evolution on their machine
> > after using, say, Mozilla for while, and runs Evolution, can
> > automatically get it setup as their default.
> >
> >  And, of course, Evolution and others should have some
> > button/checkbox/whatever in their config windows to set the app as the
> > default, and/or enter the URL configuration handler (so the user can get
> > to it from a sane/easy-to-remember place).
> >
> >  There might be an advantage in using text files over gconf for this in
> > that OS packages can drop files for their supporting MIME types with
> > command in, for example, /etc/gnome/url.d/foobar.  Of course, I suppose
> > gconf2 will have a nice enough command-line program for the apps to do
> > it
> >  that way...
> >
> >  Anyways, just a suggestion I thought might make life easier for some. 
> > I'm probably just being an idiot like usual, tho.  But everyone here
> > should be used to how much of a moron I am.  ^,^
> >
> > Sean Etc.
> >
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