On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 06:41:43PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > 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 :( But a good scheme. Even if something like htmlview can't realistically be arranged for everything, this still seems like a decent approach for a menu editor to take. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>