Have a way to dynamically change software associations at distribution level

[Patryk Zawadzki]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Francois Gouget<fgouget at codeweavers.com> wrote:
> KDE has used InitialPreference since long before XDG existed. So that
> causes me to wonder. Why didn't XDG use this scheme from the get-go? Was
> it considered and ruled out? If so, what were the reasons at the time?
> Don't they still apply?

I think it doesn't solve the most common multi-desktop scenario:

* KDE should favor KDE/QT apps
* GNOME should favor GNOME/GTK+ apps
* XFCE should favor XFCE apps but probably prefer GTK+ to QT etc.

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Patryk Zawadzki