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[Stanislav Brabec]

David Faure wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> > 
> Applications should simply install a .desktop file that describes them.
> In order for the default order of applications (i.e. without user configuration available)
> to be non-random, we (in KDE) use a InitialPreference field in the .desktop file,
> and the default application for a mimetype is the one with the highest initial preference number.

Hopefully GNOME does not implement InitialPreference any more. Otherwise
GNOME would start KDE applications for all tasks. (It was a real problem
in one of older GNOME versions.)

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Best Regards / S pozdravem,

Stanislav Brabec
software developer
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