Why Nautilus and GNOME applications use URIs?

[C. Gatzemeier]

Am Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:20:02 -0300
schrieb Damián Nohales <damiannohales at gmail.com>:

> Is there any advantage to using URI instead of the 
> local address?

I guess, just as the name says, they are universal accross different
machines, while local paths are generally different. Nonetheless a
standard implementation agnostic relative local path like ~/net might be
usefull.

Regards,
Christian