On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: >> it's a design feature, we are told. the intent is that applications >> should offer the option to set themselves as the default, instead of the >> desktop providing a central config point. > > To the GNOME developers (Adam, I know you are just the messenger): > > This is very broken. You cannot expect non-GNOME applications to support > setting themselves as the default in GNOME. (For example, if you want to > use, say, Konqueror as your default browser, how would you set that? > Konqueror obviously does not support GNOME preferences.) > > Plus, we have seen where leaving this to the applications leads to on > Window$: applications fight for being the default and the user never gets > asked! Instead, merely running an app will change his/her file associations, > leading to a ping-pong effect. Please do not head down that road! And does each individual app then have to offer a config option to enable/disable this after the original decision if the user changes their mind, or is that final? Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
