On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Mhall wrote: > All of these seems to be steering closer and closer to theDebian alternatives > database, could we just use that with a mime type instead of a task name? It > already has support for applications to add/remove themselves with a priority > number, allows the user to easily change priority and/or set which one to use. > > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/91
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 * 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. * it wouldn't solve "gnome and kde want to start a different text editor" either. -- 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
