Browsers [was: Fedora Core 3]

[Harald Hoyer]

Marius Andreiana wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 10:50 +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> 
>>>I don't know if you've looked at the Fedora Extras Firefox package, but it's
>>>nicely integrated so that in Gnome, you can choose it as a 'preferred web
>>>browser', and you get it instead of Mozilla when you hit the web browser
>>>button or any other time Gnome wants to show a web page.
>>>
>>>Unlike /etc/alternatives, this is a per user choice, which makes more sense
>>>for an application like this.
>>>
>>
>>I hope we won't see paperclip dialogs like: "Firefox does not seem your default browser. Would you..."
> 
> No, the browser shouldn't check if it's default. It just does it's job.
> It depends on gnome/system what browser it starts or with what it opens
> the links when user clicks on shortcuts. As said, preferred browser can
> be set in Preferred Applications.
> 
> /etc/alternatives doesn't make sense for this.
> 

What about kde, xfce? they do not use gconf... Isn't that a job for mime-types?