On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 03:00:16AM +1100, Andrew Lau wrote: > OK. So if that's the case, what do we do with "Desktop Preferences -> > Advanced -> Preferred Applications -> Text Editor"? Remove it > altogether from Debian and manually patch every GNOME 2 application > that recognises it to refer to debian-alternatives instead? This > solution does not look pleasant, but it's what you're implying. > > Yours sincerely, > Andrew "Netsnipe" Lau
I'm with Andrew on this one. We shouldn't go round randomly replacing bits of GNOME's (central - gconf) configurability with obfuscated alternatives or scripts which are meaningless to the average desktop user. If there are packages which don't link to libgnome* that wish to have the ability to do gnome-specific things, like spawn a file in the gnome editor, launch the right viewer for a file, or view an URL, I think this is a clear indication that GNOME should provide a program which exposes these libgnome calls to the command line. In the mean time, seeing as GNOME 2.2 is reaching quite severe levels of frozen-ness, we could easily create a gnome-edit script which used gconf tools to query the preferred text editor property, and launched it as appropriate. Regards, Rob
