Re: Reducing the number of special uris in gnome

[Dave Bordoley <bordoley msu edu>]

No i did not mean this at all. What I meant is i think we should not
expose special directories other than applications:// and trash://
through the nautilus ui (yes this would mean removing start-here:).
Since I feel this is a bad overall ui as it creates more than one
central location in nautilus for launching apps (and there is no sense
of hierarchy, just random locations). I have no problem with the current
uri scheme, and i think your worries about the w3c are unwarranted. 

I'm removing desktop-devel from the cc as it has become clear to me that
this is purely a nautilus issue.

dave

On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 00:19, Stephen Browne wrote:
> Dave, 
> 
> I think that is what the big start here icon was supposed to do.
> User clicks it and navigates from there and doesn't have to know
> anything about the URIs gnome-vfs is using.
> 
> If by "not expose them in the ui", you mean not displaying the uri
> schemes in the location bar then I agree with you.
> The uri schemes are an implementation detail that should be hidden and
> the special locations should be represented by (localisable?) strings
> that mean more to the user.  e.g. "Preferences" which maps to
> all-preferences: internally but is never exposed to the user.
> 
> This would also save us if the W3C or whoever decided to come up with a
> real world preferences:// standard protocol that called for the use of 
> this URI :-) 
> 
> Since this would be just a mapping from a string to a uri entering the
> uri into the lcoation bar would still work so we save backwards
> compatability.
> 
> Just like "Control Panel", "Printers", Dial-up Networking", 
> "My Documents" etc in the windows world.
> 
> If this is what you are suggesting then I think its odd that you closed
> a bug (enh) I logged for exactly this feature. Can't remember the number
> and bugzilla isn't playing ball right now.
> 
> One other thing, I don't really think there is or needs to be a
> hierarchical relationship between Preferences and Applications and
> whatever other than collecting them together with the Start Here
> location (or My Computer on windows).
> 
> Stephen.