Re: galeon-snapshot uri's

[Johannes Rohr <j.rohr@gmx.de>]

Tim Winter <tim@gigageek.net> writes:

> Hello.
> 
> I have added new internet service in menu->Desktop
> preferences->Advanced->File Types and programs called gg. However, every
> time I try to use it via the run program dialog I get an error saying:
> 
> Failed to execute command: 'gg:foo'
> Details: No such file or directory
> 
> Shouldn't this work?  I know it works when I run 'man:foo', but is that
> set up somewhere else?  Thank you for your help
> 

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That's a know limitation and bug of the 'run' box, which is part of
gnome-panel. It handles only a very limited subset of URIs.

Also preferences:///, fonts:/// don't work. Even mailto:foo@bar.com
doesn't.

See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104209

Thanks,

Johannes