Re: [semi-SOLVED] Re: Why does installing gnome packages versioned 2.28+6 insist on installing gnash?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2010-03-19 14:20, Celejar wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:39:49 -0500
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > XFce only allows the user to choose MUA or browser.  Win XP allows 
> > the user to make all sorts of user-specific application choices.
>
> A lot of this stuff is really probably better handled at the individual
> application level.  For example, a file manager can be configured to
> open files using particular applications, whether you're using mc or
> thunar under xfce.  What sorts of 'user-specific application choices'
> do you have in mind that shouldn't be handled this way, but by the DE?

For example, which apps to use open jpeg files, PDF files, ODF, DOC, 
XLS, etc, whether I'm in Thunar, Thunderbird, Evolution, Mutt, 
gentoo or any of a dozen other file managers.

There should be a freedesktop standard for file associations.

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