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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?

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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