On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 03:50:31PM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> David Faure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 08:08:01AM -0400, Gallagher wrote:
> > > quick question,
> > >
> > > how would I configure KDE to use XMMS as the default audio player?
> > > When changing MIME types in KDE it only allows you to pick from a certain
> > > selection of programs to open with a certain file type. How would one add
> > > something to that list?
> > Create a kdelnk for xmms.
> >
> > This is explained in the user guide available on web site:
> > http://www.linux-mandrake.com/userguide/en/reference/004.html#38
>
> Yes, David, but with our menu-system, all manually created kdelnk shall be
> deleted..
Which shows a major flaw somewhere. That menu system is cool per se, but unless
all distributions adopt it, it creates a major incompatibility not only
between distributions but also compared to the core product,
and it makes support more complex for the KDE/gnome/... developers.
Distributions are doing more and more distribution-specific changes,
and it's getting more and more difficult for the free-software
developers to understand what's going on with their own software
and why users have trouble with it !
Don't think that the distributions can handle the users questions. Rightfully
most questions go to the project developers themselves, or the mailing-lists/
newsgroups, and they are often more likely to be answered there than
e.g. here (most mandrake-fun questions are not answered, whereas I make
sure most questions on comp.windows.x.kde are). Anyway, the point is,
differenciation between distros leads to fragmentation - quite strange
to say that about that feature which is about unification, but true.
> So the right thing to do is to edit the /usr/lib/menu/* files, adding the
> kde mimetypes entries..
So the web site needs an update.
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