Re: preferred applications dialog: Mail Readers hardcoded

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 20:34, Robert Love wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 15:25, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 
> > I've wanted to do that for a while for magicdev as well. The main
> > problem is that everybody and their sisters would add keywords, and they
> > wouldn't match, and where one would look for those desktop files.
> > The actual code is piece of piss.
> 
> Well, it should not be too bad to standardize on names if we do it
> through freedesktop.org.  Besides, adding keywords is only useful if
> people know about them and can use them, so I do not see a huge
> incentive to add a bunch of crap.
> 
> But I agree that looking for and managing the .desktop files is a pain. 

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.

> Indeed, the code would suck.

Hehe, there's a bit of a misunderstanding there. "Piece of piss" means
"easy as pie" over here ;)

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