Bug#385595: libc6: smb:// opening file is not supported in mosta application when it i sby nautilus

[Josselin Mouette]

reassign 385595 libgnomevfs2-0
severity 385595 wishlist
retitle 385595 There should be a way to restrict the supported URI schemes
thanks

Le samedi 02 septembre 2006 à 22:00 +0200, Aurelien Jarno a écrit :
> Jean-Michel a écrit :
> >>> When I try to open a file (shared by a windows machine) from nautilus,
> >>> the software (openoffice, firefox, galeon ) crashes, because it does not
> >>> knwo how to open the file.

Then these are mostly bugs in the applications.

As for openoffice, I've just checked and it works if you install
openoffice.org-gnome.

For firefox, epiphany and galeon, this is because nautilus assumes they
are capable of opening all URIs, because their .desktop file contains a
%U in their command line, while they are only able to open URIs
supported by libxul (meaning, http, ftp and the like).

KDE already has a key to define the list of supported URI schemes
(X-KDE-Protocols), but GNOME doesn't. This is probably where the problem
lies.

> nautilus should retrieve the file and pass the local file to the 
> application.

This cannot work reliably, this is why GNOME developers are privileging
gnome-vfs instead.
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