Bug#583294: gnome-control-center: gnome-default-applications-properties should update-alternatives?

[Josselin Mouette]

Le jeudi 27 mai 2010 à 11:46 -0700, Mark Hedges a écrit :
> Possibly true, and your ire justified.  However, in Debian,
> it might not make sense to then block other applications
> that are not native to macs.  I don't think your preference
> for one operating system (that is not Debian) should prevent
> you from creating a system control panel that sets
> preferences for other prior apps not from that system.
> Since Debian is open to ports from other architectures, and
> legacy terminal applications (alpine, in my case), I'm not
> sure you can expect all the developers of those different
> markets to conform to a minority market standard.  It sounds
> a lot like Microsoft... or a microsoft wannabe who resells
> stuff that is already free.

WTF are you talking about? Do you think that Epiphany is a MacOS
application or what?

> I am just suggesting, since I am the only person who uses my
> computer, it would be nice to have a checkbox to apply the
> same choices to the system by running update-alternatives
> with gksu.  As an average user, I was confused why changing
> the system preferences didn't change the system preferences.

If you are the only person to use your computer, what shit do you give
about system-wide defaults?

If you want to do administrative tasks, you can use administration
tools. Like update-alternatives, or gconf-editor if you want to change
the same setting. Or sabayon even, if you want to use the
gnome-control-center interface itself to set system-wide defaults.

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