No, Sebastian Dröge is the maintainer. It seems that when a service entry is clicked behind the scenes the applet delegates opening it to a series of plugins. As you'll have guessed from the error messages not all services have plugins implemented to work with them yet, e.g. printing. However it used to work fine for web sites in Dapper, and now in Feisty it doesn't.
It delegates opening of web URLs to Nautilus. E.g. for a local web site like http://myhost.local/ it will run the command: nautilus http://myhost.local/ If you replace the 'myhost' bit with a real hostname and run that command line in a shell you'll see the same error dialog: Couldn't display "http://myhost.local/";. The location is not a folder. Now looking at the deb src for the package it seems that this has been patched to work like this as the original code used the python call gnome.url_show(). I'm not sure why this is changed for ubuntu but if this doesn't work well enough a possible fix could be to use a tool like gnome-open or xdg-open instead of nautilus. I'm going to mark this issue as confirmed. Although maybe this is really more than one issue: on the one hand we have a regression in terms of functionality cause it no longer opens advertised web sites, but developing plugins for other services is adding new features. ** Changed in: service-discovery-applet (Ubuntu) Assignee: Dan Munckton => (unassigned) Status: Needs Info => Confirmed -- Zeroconf Service Discovery Applet Doesn't Handle Most Service Types https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112095 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
