On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 22:13 -0800, Michael M. wrote: > In Gnome, at least, using "Preferred Applications" to set your preferred > browser will not override the setting in alternatives. Which can be > very frustrating when you don't know that the whole "Debian > alternatives" thing even exists. > > IMO, this is a little fly in Debian's or Gnome's ointment. If you are > going to provide a "Preferences" menu and an item there called > "Preferred Applications" that purports to allow the user to select a > default browser, then it ought to work. Otherwise, don't bother.
It does work, and if would like to use the alternatives setting instead (which is settings for the system as a whole, not per user) you can set the browser to "Debian Sensible Browser". -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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