On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 08:52 +0100, Kevin Kofler 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.) There's no GNOME preferences involved. Make sure Konqueror sets itself as the handler for x-scheme-handler/http (and https) and you're done. > 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! We're talking about browsers and mailers. Browsers already do that. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
