Have a way to dynamically change software associations at distribution level

[Didier Roche]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Didier Roche<didrocks at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> I was thinking that distros will bump priorities for their defaults
> (and remove then defaults.list for GNOME). For instance, FF in Ubuntu
> would have a priority of 9 and epiphany, which is not our default, 5
> or 1. So, the logic might be:
> First: user choice
> Then: Priority
> Finally: if max(priority) is not unique, use the Categories to look at
> the best suited application.

Of course, this create the following issue: application must have for
functional equivalent usage the same priority. It seems a fuzzy
solution so.
Consequently, if we don't take into account prorities if we are
looking at categories first, putting firefox and cross-desktop apps by
default is really tricky. I understand better now your specific tags
by environment, this can be the way to go (but it involves, as you
said, massive patching for desktop environment specific apps).

Didier