Improving the Web integration in Gnome desktop

Here is a couple of suggestion wich whould IMHO improve the usability and integration of Gnome for Web users:

1. Add URI detection to gnome-terminal. The goal is to add easy web integration of simple text based application (or even the shell). I suggest a gradual, user selectable approach:
   1. having the selection recognize URI
   2. having the selection automatically extend to full URI on double click
   3. having the gnome-terminal application autodetecting URIs

   The handling is as simple as using the URL handler for the given protocol.

   It would be good to be able to define a color indicating that a substring is being recognized as an URI. Double click on such an area would launch the proper application.

2. Add URI detection to xchat, with similar settings
3. Appletify browser-history (or extend the URL-launcher), with a small front-end for configuring it, and a button to launch a browser on the history itself.
4. Extend the URL launcher to poll the user-selection for URIs
5. Extend the Mime Type dialog interface in the Control Center to be able to define/override the applications handling this mime-type (like netscape for text/html, but mozilla for text/xml or application/xml).
6. More controversial but could prove useful for home-users: provide a desktop wide cache with automatic setup for example as the Netscape proxy.

Well, that's just suggestions, without patches so far ...

Daniel