On Fri, 14 May 2004, Havoc Pennington wrote:
Would be kind of nice as an extension of the Preferred Applications
concept, but it's probably not worth the effort it involves - it'd be a
fair bit of engineering to make this go. And all you really gain is that
if you prefer Galeon your Galeon menu item says "Web Browser" instead of
"Galeon Web Browser"
I guess the bigger win would be to be able to change one place and
modify our default browser, if you're an admin who wants users to have a
different browser. Right now you have to modify the panel configuration
(not for the faint of heart), the Preferred Applications setting, and
also the MIME association, or so.
Having a general framework for preferred applications without kludges like
htmlview which "everything" honors would pretty much make this whole
discussion irrelevant. I really don't want to see 5 different email
clients and 7 different browsers in the menus, regardless of what's
installed. What I want is to have "Web browser", "Email", "Text
editor"
etc generic functionality descriptions in the menus and only change it
*once* in *one* place where I can pick up my preferred browser or editor
etc from everything that's installed (or maybe even available) and be done
with it.
Easier said than done :(
- Panu -