Hi, On Fri, Jan 20, 2006, Simon Richter wrote: > And GNOME would by default be configured to launch gnome-www-browser, > thus solving the problem for GNOME users who do not set any other > browser in gnomecc. The question for me would be whether this affects > people who use neither GNOME nor KDE (the browsers optimized for a > specific environment could then be demoted to some lower priority than > the non-specific ones, perhaps?)
GNOME could then be configured to launch either sensible-browser or gnome-www-browser (my preference would go to sensible-browser because it makes sense system-wide, not only under GNOME). I'm not sure about demoting the priorities. I think priorities should decrease with the number of users because the more specific a package is (in terms of number of users) the more likely you want it to be the default, but I suppose there's no general rule, and it's difficult to measure the importance of launching a browser matching the current environment with respect to its popularity. > > These changes were commited in galeon and epiphany's SVN, the changes > > to sensible-browser and to firefox remain to be done. > You mean, that they now register as an alternative for gnome-www-browser? epiphany-browser and galeon do, yes. > > Of course, this could be followed for KDE too. > It should not be difficult to get that done. I had somehow expected that > the bug report and any followups are forwarded to -devel to spark > discussion, so I'm explicitly forwarding it there. My response went through debian-devel when I Cc: the bug report, so I'm continuing this way. > Not entirely, since it isn't limited to browsers or terminals. Many > users have personal preferences about things that are currently handled > through the alternatives system, and the sysadmin's choice (or > non-choice, as in the "bumping priorities" scenario) will affect them. Yes. However, I consider that the system command sensible-browser is user-configurable (via $BROWSER) and the GNOME environment is user-configurable (via gconf settings), so for the browser choice front system-wide and in GNOME, I'm satisfied with the way of things. > For example, everytime a GNOME or KDE application launches, a lot of > dotfiles will be created for me, so I'd like to avoid this as much as > possible as I will only have to clean up afterwards. Hmm, this sounds like a whole new class of problems. Cheers, -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Current Earth status: NOT DESTROYED
