Fwd: Places Menu, Firefox, and FTP "Network Servers"

[Dexter Ang]

Hi folks. I (absent-mindedly) emailed to ubuntu-devel for a possible
bug in opening previously saved ftp connections via the Places menu in
Hoary. By default it opens in firefox. But, by feel, it should open in
Nautilus these days since Nautilus is used now for file transfer via
network, not just local.

I wasn't able to find a bug report on this, until a few minutes ago here:
https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1550

Anyway, if you've been annoyed by this small detail, the solution is
quite simple. It was given to me by Julien Olivier (the original bug
reporter!) and I forward it below.

   ---------- Forwarded message ----------
   From: Julien Olivier <julo at altern.org>
   Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:06:29 +0100
   Subject: Re: Places Menu, Firefox, and FTP "Network Servers"
   To: Dexter Ang <thepoch at gmail.com>
   
   Hi Dexter !
   
   I see the same problem here, and I found a workaround to it:
    - Fire up gconf-editor
    - Go to desktop -> gnome -> url-handlers -> ftp
    - Put the following in the "command" field: nautilus --no-desktop %s
   
   Then restart the panel using: killall gnome-panel
   
   And now ftp links open in Nautilus instead of Firefox (at least for
   me:)).
   
   Feel free to forward this email to ubuntu-users if that worked for you.
   
   Cheers !
   --
   Julien Olivier <julo at altern.org>
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Hope this helps others. One note is that I didn't have to killall
gnome-panel, but your mileage may vary. =)

dex