Re: [Ayatana] Opening URL's that point at downloadable objects

Hi Jeremy, I think trying to *fix* this situation would be potentially very hard, if not impossible, to do robustly and correctly. Of course, the reason that clicking a link opens the web browser is that the browser handles the http:// protocol, just as it may also handle https:// ftp:// and poten

Re: [Ayatana] Opening URL's that point at downloadable objects

On 05/06/10 17:02, Frederik Nnaji wrote: > Hi Jeremy ;) > > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 19:24, Jeremy Nickurak > wrote: > > Is this by design? Or would it make more sense for the desktop to > poke the web server, get the mime-type of the content, and then > open t

Re: [Ayatana] Opening URL's that point at downloadable objects

Hi Jeremy ;) On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 19:24, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > Here's a UI experience pet peeve I'd be curious to hear some feedback > about, especially with regards to whether it's confusing/unintuitive to a > regular user: > > You're in an application, maybe an email client, or an IM conv

[Ayatana] Opening URL's that point at downloadable objects

Here's a UI experience pet peeve I'd be curious to hear some feedback about, especially with regards to whether it's confusing/unintuitive to a regular user: You're in an application, maybe an email client, or an IM conversation, or (heaven-forbid) a terminal. There's a URL you'd like to click on,