On Fri, 14 May 2004, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > Would be kind of nice as an extension of the Preferred Applications > concept, but it's probably not worth the effort it involves - it'd be a > fair bit of engineering to make this go. And all you really gain is that > if you prefer Galeon your Galeon menu item says "Web Browser" instead of > "Galeon Web Browser" > > I guess the bigger win would be to be able to change one place and > modify our default browser, if you're an admin who wants users to have a > different browser. Right now you have to modify the panel configuration > (not for the faint of heart), the Preferred Applications setting, and > also the MIME association, or so. Having a general framework for preferred applications without kludges like htmlview which "everything" honors would pretty much make this whole discussion irrelevant. I really don't want to see 5 different email clients and 7 different browsers in the menus, regardless of what's installed. What I want is to have "Web browser", "Email", "Text editor" etc generic functionality descriptions in the menus and only change it *once* in *one* place where I can pick up my preferred browser or editor etc from everything that's installed (or maybe even available) and be done with it. Easier said than done :( - Panu -
