Fedora Core 2 wishlists

[Bill Nottingham]

Karl DeBisschop (kdebisschop at alert.infoplease.com) said: 
> On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 10:43, Robert Marcano wrote:
> 
> > > However, that won't be the ONLY feature of Fedora Core 2.  I'd like to
> > > hear people's wishlists...
> > 
> > Make default applications configurable, for example instead of Mozilla
> > Web Browser, call it Web Browser and allows the user to change it
> > without messing around with the .desktop files
> 
> We have a system mechanism for this in the alternatives system. Any
> chance of extending that to provide a uniform user-level way of
> specifying alternatives?

I'd prefer not; the alternatives hack is something that should be
severely limited in where it's used.

Bill