[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#720377: Bug#720377: exo-utils: exo-open fails on magnet scheme URLs

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 06:13:56AM +0100, Martín Ferrari wrote:
> Package: exo-utils
> Version: 0.10.2-2
> Followup-For: Bug #720377
> 
> I can confirm this: exo-open is basically useless for anything that is not
> their 4 intented applications (mail, web, terminal, file). It is confusing to
> the user, and it does not degrade gracefully. It does not try to get a handler
> from the MIME database, from the gconf url-handlers, the .desktop files, or
> even tries to call gvfs-open if it is present.

That's actually not true. exo-open on smb:// schemes works just fine
for me, as an example.
-- 
Yves-Alexis Perez
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