Proposal and RFC: DAL, the Desktop Abstraction Layer

[Ikke]

> It's broken for an app to do something like list available TextEditor
> and then pick one using its own algorithm. When activating TextEditor,
> you want the same one to start no matter who starts it. The user or
> admin would set which one this is.

True in case of a text editor. But if I got beep-media-player playing
some files, and I open a msuic file in (eg) Nautilus, I want that file
to be played inside BMP, I dont want nautilus to start Rhythmbox (my
default player, as an example) so 2 tracks start playing at the same
time.
This is quite situation-dependant IMHO.

Ikke