On Mon, 14 Feb 2011, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > How is one supposed to prioritize between the various browsers? > > There will be a default selected in gnome-session, that can be changed > by user action. Without a session-wide default (any session manager can > set one, of course) a random choice (possibly alphabetical) is used.
How is that default communicated? An environment variable? A gconf key? (I'm looking for a work-around for myself that can be used immediately) > Maybe 2.32, but it won’t be uploaded anyway, so that will be 3.0 to have > the GUI to configure that default. That means in several months. :( > > From a user point of view, it's disturbing and this change will reach > > testing if we don't finish is properly soon enough (or open an appropriate > > RC bug on glib to avoid having it migrate before the other components are > > in place). > > We are used to have much more terrible breakage in testing/unstable > right after a release. If our concerns are now bugs wrt. setting the > default browser, it must mean we are doing *great* :) Well, if we want to be serious about Constantly Usable Testing (and I wish we do) I believe we should care about such things because they are far from being details from an end-user perspective. Filed #613381 to block glib2.0. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110214132838.gb16...@rivendell.home.ouaza.com