Bug#172436: Is it OK for the new policy wording to be a SHOULD?
Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> writes:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:07:19PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote:
>> It's acceptable IMO that strange things happen when the user uses both
>> systems and sets them to different values. But using only one should
>> have a system-wide effect IMO.
> There might be a system default, but a user should be able to change
> that.
The current proposed language has something in there about that, as I
recall.
> If all graphical desktops can agree on how to specify the default
> browser, we could make sensible-browser use that setting. But I don't
> think they do.
It sounds like GNOME already does the right thing and would comply with
the current proposed language based on earlier discussion. Could someone
check KDE and Xfce?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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