Re: Missing gnome-edit wrapper under GNOME 2
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 12:18:30AM +1100, Andrew Lau wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:09:31PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote:
> > gedit comes with a gnome-text-editor alternative. (I don't know of
> > anything else which uses gnome-text-editor, though. It was
> > originally a hardcoded symlink that I made into an alternative when
> > I debianised gedit.)
>
> But the whole purpose of the "gnome-edit" wrapper was to call the
> preferred editor as selected in the GNOME Control Centre, well at
> least in GNOME 1.x before it mysteriously disappeared in the GNOME 2.0
> packages. It would be counter-intuitive to make users use Debian's
> alternatives system when they believe the option has already been
> configured within the desktop environment itself.
With Gnome 2, i guess this is the new way you should do things. After
all, look at how you choose a windows manager, you use debian
alternatives.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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