Fedora Core 2 wishlists

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Dec 9 18:46:41 UTC 2003


Karl DeBisschop (kdebisschop at alert.infoplease.com) said: 
> Are there alternatives to alternatives?
> 
> While I agree that it has some real shortcomings, there are also
> shortcomings to having the user-land equivalents be totally divorced
> from alternatives. There are also shortcomings to having the KDE and
> Gnome equivalents be divorced from each other and having to set default
> browsers in both.

That should be handled by better desktop interoperation, not wrapping
everything in a forest of symlinks, IMO; take, for example, a unified
MIME system.

Bill





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