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[David Faure]

On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> David Faure wrote:
> >I never mentionned a backwards compatibility issue; the issue is bigger
> > than this: the issue is that kwrite.desktop saying InitialPreference=8
> > and gedit.desktop saying InitialPreference=9 would mean that all KDE
> > users get gedit just because their distro installed it; and vice-versa
> > if gedit says 7. So the concept doesn't work in a cross-desktop manner.
> 
> Suggestion: [...]

This would need a lot of discussion between the projects, to agree on each and
every preference number so that everyone agrees on the result being "fair".
I don't think this is going to work.

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).