On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Stanislav Brabec wrote: > David Faure wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Stanislav Brabec wrote: > > > > > Applications should simply install a .desktop file that describes them. > > In order for the default order of applications (i.e. without user > > configuration available) > > to be non-random, we (in KDE) use a InitialPreference field in the .desktop > > file, > > and the default application for a mimetype is the one with the highest > > initial preference number. > > Hopefully GNOME does not implement InitialPreference any more. Otherwise > GNOME would start KDE applications for all tasks. (It was a real problem > in one of older GNOME versions.)
OK that's a valid concern, which can be solved with [InitialPreferences-KDE] and [InitialPreferences-Gnome] I suppose. But this defeats the point of standardizing it I guess, we could just implement our own different solutions. Fine with me. I just wanted to point out that the solution is an initial preference per application/mimetype combination, rather than letting applications mess up defaults.list - that's the job of the user. -- David Faure, [EMAIL PROTECTED], sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE, Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org). _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
