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Default nautilus desktop URLs: gnotices is broken. slashdot is
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Wed Jun 9 14:44:03 2004
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: testers@mit.edu
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Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 14:43:59 -0400
Perhaps people who never ran nautilus by hand don't have this problem.
On my nautilus desktop newly with 9.3 are two files that are URL's:
gnotices (38 bytes)
slashdot (25 bytes)
If I double click on gnotices I get an alert
Nautilus has no installed viewer capable of
displaying "/mit/wdc/.gnome-desktop/gnotices".
And then it opens a file browser window on my home directory.
If I double click on slashdot it asks me how I want to open the file,
with GNU Emacs, or with gedit or with vi.
The "Open with ..." option only offers those 3 options.
I think we did the right thing disabling URL viewing in the GNOME viewer
so that people would not mistake it for Mozilla.
But we're apparently creating default URL's in everyone's desktop that
shows how broken nautilus is.
Suggestions to remedy:
1. send a bug upstream that gnotices is not supported.
2. send a bug upstream saying that the nautilus file browser should NOT
look like Mozilla/Netscape until and unless it IS Mozilla.
3. We should not be putting gnoticies and slashdot in .gnome-desktop by
default.
4. We should offer Mozilla as an opener option.
5. We should, perhaps, put in some glue so that nautilus will CALL
Mozilla if asked to open a URL.
6. We should investigate why gnotices are labeled as unsupported and
perhaps fix it.
-wdc
