Cleaning up "Preferred Applications" & Desktop Consistency
Jonathan Blandford
jrb at redhat.com
Wed Jan 7 08:29:13 UTC 2004
[ I somehow got trimmed from the CC line and I missed this message. ]
Havoc Pennington <hp at redhat.com> writes:
> On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 02:01, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> > We've gone back and forth on this on the GNOME/freedesktop lists, and
> > the consensus is that things like preferred applications really isn't
> > part of the MIME system.
>
> In deciding that, did you come to some decision on how preferred
> applications should be done?
For the short term, just keys in GConf in GNOME. I don't think we
really have any big master plan here.
> If you have an HTML file, do you use the text/html association or the
> preferred web browser? If changing my preferred web browser, does the
> text/html association also get updated?
No. The two are handled separately and are subtly different. A
web-browser is more of a 'protocol' viewer than a file-type viewer.
Changing the default text/html handler to an HTML editor is a reasonable
task, and shouldn't change my web browser.
Thanks,
-Jonathan
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