Comment 5 for bug 739038
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| Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) wrote | #5 |
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So here's what I committed:
In global search (aka Dash search) and only there, and *not* in dedicated file search, can you enter something that looks or smells like a web URL and the first hit in the Dash will become a link that launches the URL in your preferred browser. I tested that this works well in both Unity3d and Unity2d.
I didn't add support for non-web URLs (file:, sftp: etc) since then we'd need a bit more logic in there to select the right icon and what not to have it not feel like a hack. Not that it's in anyway tricky to do, just that it adds more code than I think is a good idea at this point in the cycle. That said, I am also sure that the web case covers 99.9% of ordinary users' needs.
It could maybe be a nice bitesize bug to add general URL support for the Oneiric cycle.