[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Clicking Help in Preferences results in URI Not Found on Win7 (#1522)

[Enrico Tröger]

I'll stretch the last point from the future PR plan. Maybe we find another solution for existing users or just leave them with their configuration.

WRT `gtk_show_uri()`: for it doesn't work with any local filesystem URL, neither with `file://` prefix nor without nor escaped nor unescaped.

At the end, I got even this:
```20:50:02: Geany WARNING	: ShellExecute failed opening "http://www.geany.org": Failed to execute helper program (Invalid argument)
```, i.e. it didn't open a plain and dead simple HTTP uri :(.
Based on the error message, I guess it might indeed related to GVFS and its absence on Windows :).

Some time after the release I would work on the above mentioned behavior change to prefer the users' preferences and falling back to the old, slightly broken method.

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