Future of Default Applications

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

Hi all,


I've been going through the Default Applications capplet bugs in
bugzilla and come across this:

http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=68324

Which to me is just fairly horrible. If people want to add more and more
handlers to Default Applications¹, it's going to get ugly very quickly.
If applications can provide an interface to set themselves as the
default application (like many browsers already do), do we even need
these options in the control center? If we do, then perhaps we could
re-design this capplet so it's a bit more scalable so we can cover more
ground.

There is already a suggestion for a slightly simpler interface². Perhaps
we could use this an collapse most of the options into a treeview or
something?

What do people think?

Regards,

Thomas


¹ which they do, see bug 171871, 345715, 536818, 557346

² https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592509