Help Needed: gnome-open and apps patching

[Warren Togami]

Warren Togami wrote:
> 
> 4) xchat and (soon) gaim already honors the gnome-open Preferred 
> Application choice, but there are undoubtedly other applications that 
> could be trivially patched to launch gnome-open for URL handling. Please 
> let us know if you find such applications.  If you submit an exact patch 
> to insert into the SRPM, there is still a chance that it can be included 
> before the freeze.  Well, I hope so at least.
> 

One more related note:
5) While I personally think the "Web Browser" and "Mail" launching icons 
should launch the chosen Preferred Applications rather than the 
hard-coded mozilla or evolution, there are technical barriers currently 
preventing this.  Launching the preferred application must be tested to 
be far more reliable than it has been in the past.  Also this presents 
challenges with application startup feedback.  It would be really great 
if we can think of ways to solve these problems.

Warren