Default Program | File Association

[Alexander Larsson]

On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 12:23 +0100, Thiago Macieira wrote:

> I was writing an email to talk about that, but I erased it and thought better 
> not to.
> 
> The name "defaults.list" is actually a misnomer, IIUC. It isn't a matter of 
> defaults, it's a matter of user preference. So this file should save only the 
> changes the user makes. Therefore, they should apply anywhere, regardless of 
> desktop.

Not only the user can use such a file. For instance a sysadmin can use
it to set site-wide defaults (without having to modify all desktop
files).

> In the absence of said files, the initial preferences from the .desktop files 
> apply. As David Faure said, those are fine for most cases already.

Yes. Although there is currently no standardized way to specify the
order of these. But that is a separate issue.