On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:07:19PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > It's acceptable IMO that strange things happen when the user uses both > systems and sets them to different values. But using only one should > have a system-wide effect IMO.
There might be a system default, but a user should be able to change that. > > Not if it includes packages which do not respect BROWSER but that do > > respect something similar in spirit coming from the graphical desktops. > > "Standards are wonderful! Everybody should have their own!" > > No, thanks. Let's please not allow programs to say "I'll ignore your > system-wide setting because I use some other system-wide setting > instead". There should be only one default browser on a system. I agree to that. And I think this is a reason why we have a policy in the first place. If all graphical desktops can agree on how to specify the default browser, we could make sensible-browser use that setting. But I don't think they do. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
