Re: Missing gnome-edit wrapper under GNOME 2
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 03:00:16AM +1100, Andrew Lau wrote:
> OK. So if that's the case, what do we do with "Desktop Preferences ->
> Advanced -> Preferred Applications -> Text Editor"? Remove it
> altogether from Debian and manually patch every GNOME 2 application
> that recognises it to refer to debian-alternatives instead? This
> solution does not look pleasant, but it's what you're implying.
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Andrew "Netsnipe" Lau
I'm with Andrew on this one. We shouldn't go round randomly replacing
bits of GNOME's (central - gconf) configurability with obfuscated
alternatives or scripts which are meaningless to the average desktop
user.
If there are packages which don't link to libgnome* that wish to
have the ability to do gnome-specific things, like spawn a file in the
gnome editor, launch the right viewer for a file, or view an URL, I
think this is a clear indication that GNOME should provide a program
which exposes these libgnome calls to the command line.
In the mean time, seeing as GNOME 2.2 is reaching quite severe levels of
frozen-ness, we could easily create a gnome-edit script which used gconf
tools to query the preferred text editor property, and launched it as
appropriate.
Regards,
Rob
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