On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 07:07, Warren Togami wrote: > > One more related note: > 5) While I personally think the "Web Browser" and "Mail" launching icons > should launch the chosen Preferred Applications rather than the > hard-coded mozilla or evolution, there are technical barriers currently > preventing this. Launching the preferred application must be tested to > be far more reliable than it has been in the past. Also this presents > challenges with application startup feedback. It would be really great > if we can think of ways to solve these problems. A simple approach might be to extend the desktop file format to allow PreferredApp=browser rather than Exec=mozilla But requires a freedesktop.org preferred app spec probably, or has to be done as X-GNOME-PreferredApp Havoc
