Re: User level alternatives?

2007-04-23 Thread Peter Valdemar Mørch
Joe Hart j.hart-at-orange.nl |volatile-lists| wrote: I don't know about other WMs but KDE lets users set some default applications. Control Center KDE Components Component Chooser Sure, KDE has that setting. But e.g. neither thunderbird nor VMware honor that setting (those two are both

Re: User level alternatives?

2007-04-23 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Valdemar Mørch wrote: Joe Hart j.hart-at-orange.nl |volatile-lists| wrote: I don't know about other WMs but KDE lets users set some default applications. Control Center KDE Components Component Chooser Sure, KDE has that setting. But

Re: User level alternatives?

2007-04-22 Thread John L Fjellstad
Wei Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We now have system level `update-alternatives' mechanism that can be used by root to maintain symbol links in `/etc/alternatives'. Is it useful/interesting to extend its use to user level, i.e. to maintain similar symbol links in `~/bin' or something like

Re: User level alternatives?

2007-04-22 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John L Fjellstad wrote: The way the did it at computer lab at my school, was to create a bunch of scripts that you had to call to get the version of program you wanted. Say, you wanted java-1.5. It is probably contained inside

Re: User level alternatives?

2007-04-21 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 07:26:37PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: We now have system level `update-alternatives' mechanism that can be used by root to maintain symbol links in `/etc/alternatives'. Is it useful/interesting to

Re: User level alternatives?

2007-04-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 13:59:41 +0800, Wei Chen wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 07:26:37PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: We now have system level `update-alternatives' mechanism that can be used by root to maintain symbol links in `/etc/alternatives'. Is it

Re: User level alternatives?

2007-04-21 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 13:59:41 +0800, Wei Chen wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 07:26:37PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: We now have system level `update-alternatives' mechanism that can be used by root

User level alternatives?

2007-04-20 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, We now have system level `update-alternatives' mechanism that can be used by root to maintain symbol links in `/etc/alternatives'. Is it useful/interesting to extend its use to user level, i.e. to maintain similar symbol links in `~/bin' or

Re: User level alternatives?

2007-04-20 Thread Peter Valdemar Mørch
Wei Chen wchenhk-at-gmail.com |volatile-lists| wrote: We now have system level `update-alternatives' mechanism that can be used by root to maintain symbol links in `/etc/alternatives'. Is it useful/interesting to extend its use to user level, i.e. to maintain similar symbol links in `~/bin' or

Re: User level alternatives?

2007-04-20 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 � wrote: Wei Chen wchenhk-at-gmail.com |volatile-lists| wrote: We now have system level `update-alternatives' mechanism that can be used by root to maintain symbol links in `/etc/alternatives'. Is it useful/interesting to extend its use to user

Re: User level alternatives?

2007-04-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 07:26:37PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: Hi, We now have system level `update-alternatives' mechanism that can be used by root to maintain symbol links in `/etc/alternatives'. Is it useful/interesting to extend its use to user level, i.e. to maintain similar symbol links in

Re: User level alternatives?

2007-04-20 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:55:08 +0200 Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 � wrote: Wei Chen wchenhk-at-gmail.com |volatile-lists| wrote: We now have system level `update-alternatives' mechanism that can be used by root to maintain symbol links

Re: User level alternatives?

2007-04-20 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:26:37 +0800 Wei Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, We now have system level `update-alternatives' mechanism that can be used by root to maintain symbol links in `/etc/alternatives'. Is it useful/interesting to extend

Re: User level alternatives?

2007-04-20 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 07:26:37PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: We now have system level `update-alternatives' mechanism that can be used by root to maintain symbol links in `/etc/alternatives'. Is it useful/interesting to extend its use to user level, i.e. to maintain similar symbol links in

Re: User level alternatives?

2007-04-20 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Valdemar Mørch wrote: Wei Chen wchenhk-at-gmail.com |volatile-lists| wrote: We now have system level `update-alternatives' mechanism that can be used by root to maintain symbol links in `/etc/alternatives'. Is it useful/interesting to extend