Bug#172436: Is it OK for the new policy wording to be a SHOULD?
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > No, thanks. Let's please not allow programs to say "I'll ignore your
> > system-wide setting because I use some other system-wide setting
> > instead". There should be only one default browser on a system.
>
> I agree to that. And I think this is a reason why we have a policy in
> the first place.
Sure, but we shouldn't create standards conflicting with existing
practices when we don't need to and we shouldn't design in the void
ignoring what's already in place.
Also we must consider if that's something better standardized at the
freedesktop level. Consider for example that we might want to mandate the
usage of xdg-open to call a browser, that matches existing pratice and
xdg-open could be modified so that it respects $BROWSER.
Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog
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