Help Needed: gnome-open and apps patching

[Havoc Pennington]

On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 07:07, Warren Togami wrote:
> 
> One more related note:
> 5) While I personally think the "Web Browser" and "Mail" launching icons 
> should launch the chosen Preferred Applications rather than the 
> hard-coded mozilla or evolution, there are technical barriers currently 
> preventing this.  Launching the preferred application must be tested to 
> be far more reliable than it has been in the past.  Also this presents 
> challenges with application startup feedback.  It would be really great 
> if we can think of ways to solve these problems.

A simple approach might be to extend the desktop file format to allow
PreferredApp=browser rather than Exec=mozilla

But requires a freedesktop.org preferred app spec probably, or has to be
done as X-GNOME-PreferredApp

Havoc