Preferred Applications revisited

[Luca Cavalli <loopback slackit org>]

Hi,
I'm doing some work on gnome-default-applications-properties
capplet and I'm here with a fresh new subscription to this list to ask
for comments, suggestions and advices. You can see what I have done so
far at bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171872 (not too
much indeed, but the work proceeds well :). I plan to do the work in
two steps. Step one should rework the current applet as it is now, so
that only web browsers, mail readers and terminal emulators can be
selected by the user. Step two should add some more control (keeping
the interface clean and simple), adding new application types, see also
http://live.gnome.org/PreferencesRevisited#head-b20294aa501c2e2aa1080efd1126017c63fc1472
and http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=53615&action=view
(maybe there should also be a default "news://"; handler, but gnome
doesn't ship its own news reader, so I didn't add it to the list). With
respect to text editors and audio and video players, which are
controlled by the mime type system, what is the correct way to handle
them? Should they be really added to
gnome-default-applications-properties or is it better to handle them
only via Nautilus "open with" interface on single mime type basis?
Thanks.

--
Luca