On 28 January 2013 06:51, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff <ser...@elementaryos.org> wrote: > To solve this, I wrote a wrapper that registers itself in alternatives > system with a very high priority (500) and, when invoked via a symlink > controlled by alternatives system, it determines the symlink by which > it was invoked based on argv[0], then looks up the user preference for > this kind of app by its primary mimetype and launches it. If it fails > to do so, it falls back to the second-highest-priority item in > alternatives system, i.e. executes the behavior which would happen if > the wrapper wouldn't exist at all.
This sounds very interesting. Why don't you propose it to Debian too, perhaps on the debian-devel mailing list? Jeremy -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
