I got pretty excited when I started seeing news about Totem on Planet GNOME. The Linux desktop lacked (lacks?) a decent media player that normal people can use, so a simple application that works with GNOME seemed like a pretty nice development.
As of GNOME 2.10, Totem became the "offical media player of the GNOME desktop environment". When an application is included in the GNOME desktop, that often means that various settings default to using that application. For example, Totem appears to be the default handler for mms URIs.
This would be great, except for the fact that Totem exits without so much as an error window when fed an mms URI. (Actually, it segfaults, but apparently the bug-buddy hooks are missing…)
Well, no big deal. I'll change the handler for mms URIs.
Start looking in Desktop → Preferences. Hmm, maybe Preferred Applications? All I see there is Web Browser, Mail Reader, and Terminal.
Maybe it's Multimedia Systems Selector? Hmm, nothing about URI handlers there. I guess there's no "user-friendly" UI for this…
Sigh. Time to open up gconf-editor for the millionth time. At least there's a find command… (For future reference, the path is /desktop/gnome/url-handlers. A bunch of them default to using Totem.)
So, I have to ask: Why is Totem the default handler for mms URIs if it can't fucking handle them? MPlayer, while not all GNOME-friendly, handles them fine. I really need to drop GNOME…