Welp, it looks like Gnome 2.22 is going to be missing an ftp:// handler and probably some other semi-major features as well. Even worse, hobbled and almost unusably buggy, it's probably better than what we have now.
I can't say that I've ever once managed to use the old ftp:// without running into some trouble. Be it usernames containing @ or %, refusing to start anywhere other than the ftp root (which can be a show-stopper if you don't have permission to view /home or / but only /home/youruser, etc. Likewise, smb:// can only improve, but I just don't see us getting any kind of real stability in the .22 time-frame.
I'm betting to see this in Hardy anyway, and expecting to see roughly weekly gio-related packages coming through update manager for the first month or so, and hopefully a few more over the course of the LTS so that those desktop users aren't stuck without ftp:// until 2010ish.
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