Re: Cleaning up "Preferred Applications" & Desktop Consistency

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 02:01:26AM -0500, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> .desktop files are very overloaded anyway.  What's another use or two.
> But generating the list of terminals/web browsers/mail clients by
> querying the desktop files makes some sense to me.

Ideally you want to tie it into the network back end too

	Select your preferred web browser

		<> Mozilla                  [ SOme kind of info on choice]
	        <> Konqueror

                <> Look for other browsers to download


> > In .gtkrc-2.0 do gtk-key-theme = emacs.
> 
> Actually, it's cleaner to change your "Text editting shortcuts" in the
> Keyboard Shortcuts dialog.  This is GTK+ specific, though.

Its a bit worse than that. Its "gtk+ except apps which take over and don't
do the right thing" - Epiphany for example at least had that disease on its
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