On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 12:23 +0100, Thiago Macieira wrote: > I was writing an email to talk about that, but I erased it and thought better > not to. > > The name "defaults.list" is actually a misnomer, IIUC. It isn't a matter of > defaults, it's a matter of user preference. So this file should save only the > changes the user makes. Therefore, they should apply anywhere, regardless of > desktop.
Not only the user can use such a file. For instance a sysadmin can use it to set site-wide defaults (without having to modify all desktop files). > In the absence of said files, the initial preferences from the .desktop files > apply. As David Faure said, those are fine for most cases already. Yes. Although there is currently no standardized way to specify the order of these. But that is a separate issue. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
