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Electron-Cash / Electron-Cash

Electron Cash; Bitcoin Cash thin client
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Most prominent Windows download does not register to handle bitcoincash: URIs #1504

Open mhsmith opened 5 years ago

mhsmith commented 5 years ago

On https://electroncash.org/, the first option in the list is the stand-alone EXE, so that's probably what most people download. But that doesn't register with the system to handle bitcoincash: URIs.

cculianu commented 5 years ago

I agree with you.

@fyookball -- you control the website. Want to consider this issue?

fyookball commented 5 years ago

@mhsmith That's an interesting point. I'll consider it.

Historically, the standalone executable has always been the main offering both on electrum and electron cash. My personal opinion is that system installs on windows are less tasteful and less with the "crypto ethos" than a standalone.

cculianu commented 5 years ago

@fyookball I understand the history but I want to point out that don't we want to be friends with BitPay now? Installing has the advantage that on Windows, clicking a bitcoincash: URL actually then works and opens up Electron Cash (because the install process registers the bitcoincash: URL with Windows).

Please reconsider this. We want the ecosystem to function smoothly. We also want to be friends with BitPay.

Thanks,

-Calin

EchterAgo commented 5 years ago

I also much prefer the standalone over the install. I could make the standalone have the option to register the URL handler.

cculianu commented 5 years ago

Oh wow - this would be the best of all worlds. By writing to the registry I guess?

Now the dilemma is do you do it automatically (my personal preference would be YES), or do you have it in a tools options buried somewhere...

mhsmith commented 5 years ago

Here is a person who was so accustomed to manually copying URIs from their browser and pasting them into Electron Cash, that when they couldn't do the same on Android, they went and wrote a detailed 500 word description of the problem on Reddit before it ever occurred to them to simply click the link in the browser.

cculianu commented 5 years ago

Ha ha ha -- classic internet.

mhsmith commented 5 years ago

Yeah, but I didn't post this to mock them, but to suggest that this issue be reopened. We shouldn't be forcing users to learn workarounds like this.

cculianu commented 5 years ago

Good point.

@EchterAgo I know you're busy with other stuff but we shall remain eternally grateful if you do the winapi calls in Python to register the exe some day! Reopening now...