On Lu, 06 apr 20, 09:46:50, Curt wrote: > On 2020-04-06, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> This is getting well beyond Debian, but why would GNU/Linux in general have > >> so many overlapping ways to register default applications? > > > > Probably a case of competing standards. > > Seems more like the distinction between a user-defined preference > (*Preferred Applications* button in the Xfce Settings Manager) and a > system-wide default (/etc/alternatives being designed for the case where > the user has failed to specify a particular preference among two or > more alternatives). That rclone would privilege the former over the > latter seems completely reasonable to me.
The "/etc/alternatives" mechanism is Debian specific, there is little incentive for various upstreams to use it. As far as I know whatever "Preferred Applications" mechanism the DE is using is also not standardized, which doesn't help :( Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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