Re: preferred applications dialog: Mail Readers hardcoded

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 21:06, Robert Love wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 15:44, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 
> > Fair enough. The main problem I would see would be the KDE maintainers
> > adding a keyword for one of their app, because they can also change the
> > "handler" (their volume manager, or any other piece of software that
> > would use these keywords), and the same thing happening on the GNOME,
> > with the end result being 2 different keywords for the same thing.
> 
> Yah.  We would just have to do everything, centrally, through
> freedesktop.org
> 
> > > Indeed, the code would suck.
> > 
> > Hehe, there's a bit of a misunderstanding there. "Piece of piss" means
> > "easy as pie" over here ;)
> 
> Bahaha, whoops.  Learn something everyday.
> 
> How do we find and manage all of the .desktop files, then?

Read my original mail again, I said this would be one of the problems to
solve...
I guess read through $(datadir)/applications/ would be one step.

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> 
He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck either, but a
real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or
something.