Comment 10 for bug 956255

(In reply to comment #1)
> Let Gnome users complain at bugzilla.gnome.org. They removed the on place we
> could influence the behaviour of gio in a decent way. So instead, knowing this
> would make things harder for not-fully-Xfce users, I choose to make it work for
> us.

Could you please point me to the discussion so that we can find out the requirements?

> Make exo-open could be a bit more intelligent, if so, I can fix that, but if
> Gnome decides to not care about others, I fix it the ugly way.

I'm not aware of what exactly exo-open does, but the x-scheme-handler takes priority on search - how do you handle finding the appropriate application for the given type, avoiding hitting the scheme handler?