On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 22:04 +0400, Сергей Давыдов wrote: > Feel free to read the archives of this mailing-list to know > why adding a > list of protocols isn't a good idea, and actually harms > interoperability. > > I've found > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2008-June/009720.html thread > where the discussion just stalled while everybody seemed to agree on > adding a list of protocols. > It was also briefly brought up in 2010: > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2010-October/011661.html and > continued in > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2010-November/011679.html + > follow-ups. Opinions on that thread seem to be mixed. > > The important info I got from there is that on GNOME, XFCE, LXDE etc. > all apps support any GIO-supported URLs, and that in GNOME's > experience making the "viewer" apps download the data doesn't work.
This is the mail that I agree with: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xdg/12310/focus=12370 which pretty says "we're not going to be using that in GIO even if it exists because it's broken in many different ways". > Is this a bug report? > > No. I assume I have something misconfigured, unless proven > otherwise :) OK. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg