> Alternatives don't work for this: > * we need a _list_ of default applications, so that when one is not available > (removed, wrong desktop, cannot start, etc.) we pick the next one in the list I'm pretty sure you can get that from alternatives.
> * we need a list also for the "Open With" menu; including ways of adding and > removing from the list; this is solved by the defaults.list solution that > Alex and I agreed upon. If you can get the list of alternatives, you could use that for "Open With" right? > * it wouldn't solve "gnome and kde want to start a different text editor" > either. Yes, I do see how that is a problem, especially since alternatives is global not per-user. But then again, maybe a KDE user wants GEdit to open text/plain instead of Kate, you never know. How exactly is this solved now? Sorry if it's already been explain, I've only recently been paying attention. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
