Cleaning up "Preferred Applications" & Desktop Consistency

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Thu Jan 1 20:06:34 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 02:01, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> We've gone back and forth on this on the GNOME/freedesktop lists, and
> the consensus is that things like preferred applications really isn't
> part of the MIME system.

In deciding that, did you come to some decision on how preferred
applications should be done?

If you have an HTML file, do you use the text/html association or the
preferred web browser? If changing my preferred web browser, does the
text/html association also get updated?

Havoc







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