You're right, perhaps I'm seeing a yelp bug after all. Marking this bug as fixed. Sorry for wasting some of your time (ALT F2 didn't work for me before, but it does now >_< )
** Changed in: gnome-vfs2 (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- gnome-open ftp://URI fails https://launchpad.net/bugs/8306 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs