[ I somehow got trimmed from the CC line and I missed this message. ]
Havoc Pennington <hp(a)redhat.com> writes:
On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 02:01, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> We've gone back and forth on this on the GNOME/freedesktop lists, and
> the consensus is that things like preferred applications really isn't
> part of the MIME system.
In deciding that, did you come to some decision on how preferred
applications should be done?
For the short term, just keys in GConf in GNOME. I don't think we
really have any big master plan here.
If you have an HTML file, do you use the text/html association or
the
preferred web browser? If changing my preferred web browser, does the
text/html association also get updated?
No. The two are handled separately and are subtly different. A
web-browser is more of a 'protocol' viewer than a file-type viewer.
Changing the default text/html handler to an HTML editor is a reasonable
task, and shouldn't change my web browser.
Thanks,
-Jonathan