RE: Adding choice of file manager to default applications

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> From: Kyle Davis [mailto:kyled blueriver net] 
> 	Just curious, but are there plans to add a setting to 
> change default file managers in GNOME 2.6?  Possibly in the 
> default application preferences, or if nothing else a GConf key.
> 	This would allow alternative file managers a chance of 
> integrating into GNOME better and would also void all excuses 
> for leaving "nautilus" hard coded into existing GNOME 
> applications.  Currently the only way to ensure you're choice 
> file manager will be used all the time is to symlink it to 
> "nautilus".  This is most definitely not user friendly.

Could you give us some examples of when this would be used, in terms of what
the user would see?

Murray Cumming
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