Re: sensible-browser and sensible-image-viewer
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:58:29AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 11-Apr-01, 08:20 (CDT), Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr> wrote:
> > Erik Steffl wrote:
> > >Malcolm Parsons wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I'd also like to see a tool to allow a user to select alternatives, by
> > >> creating symlinks in ~/bin to the appropriate binaries.
> > > perhaps that's what update-alternatives should do when run as non-root
> > > user?
>
> There is a tool to do this: it's called 'ln'.
Yes, that's what I'm doing at the moment, I'd like something more user
friendly, allowing the user to select the link destination from a list.
> > I think it's a good idea. Users ready to use update-alternatives
> > should be able to set a PATH(in .xsession, else apps launched by wm
> > does not have the good path). But how we implement it ?
>
> alias vi=vim
I don't start all applications from a shell.
> HOWEVER, there is nothing to prevent the user from typing whatever name
> they want, or creating an alias to do what they want, or creating a link
> in their own ~/bin to point to whatever they want.
So you agree that links in ~/bin should be supported?
(I would like to persuade Christian Marillat to fix bug #79941)
> You've got a very complex solution to a non-existent problem.
Yes, the double link idea was a bit OTT.
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