Cleaning up "Preferred Applications" & Desktop Consistency

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Wed Dec 31 21:20:02 UTC 2003


Miloslav Trmac wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 08:48:18AM -0500, Karl DeBisschop wrote:
> 
>>So I would like as an administrator
>>that I can specify a default for 'browser', and my users can choose to
>>depart from that.
> 
> GConf (where the GNOME preferred app settings are stored) already
> supports this. You can even set a mandatory value.

I suppose that is true of the gconf schema, however very few things 
currently pay any attention to gconf.  It also doesn't help that there 
are two redundant places in the schema where the browser can be defined.

Warren





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