URL and application handling/registration standard

[Bastien Nocera]

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.