Shaun McCance <shaunm <at> gnome.org> writes: > Registering a URI scheme is one thing. When you register a > URI scheme, you're telling Gnome what program to launch when > a URI of that form is encountered. And it seems you've done > that successfully. But you can't just send a URI to a program > that doesn't understand that kind of URI. That's sort of like > expecting an image viewer to grok some new image format you've > just made up. > > -- > Shaun And there in layed (lied?) my confusion. Really, all I want to do is have a program display an HTML file off the local file system using an implicit path, like an alias. So file:///long_hardcoded_path_that_may_change/myhelp.html gets aliased to idoc:myhelp. But I think I understand your point: that the usefulness of aliasing a URI scheme is very limited and a new URI scheme must be expected to represent a new behavior. And this gets back to the whole argument against using proprietary schemes - with which I agree. I'll set up a well-known frontpage hyperlinking all the internal doc pages. Thanks for responding. I really like using yelp! Dave _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
