On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 17:02, Bill Allombert wrote: > Not really because we are only talking about the Debian default.
I thought we were talking about EDITOR and BROWSER, which are common on other systems as well. > All GNOME > programs I have seen have a way to change the default locally, so this > does not lock the user. You can change the preferred applications, yes, of course. > I have no problem if GNOME allows to change the editor launched by all GNOME > softwares in one click, just that it default to sensible-editor. No way it's going to default to sensible-editor, at least not in its current form. If the user doesn't have EDITOR set, then it's going to invoke nano in an xterm? That'd be absolutely horrible. > The purpose of the default is not to be the best choice for a particular > user, because each users have different preferences, but to be usable by > everybody. That imply not to present them each time with a different > editor. Sure. For GNOME, the default is something that is also a GNOME application. That's the point of an integrated environment. > What you are looking for is a tool that propose users with different > configuration choices and do all the quirks neccessary. I suppose someone might use such a thing.
