On Sunday, 15 de January de 2012 12.43.15, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > applications should be detecting capabilities, not doing string > comparisons on desktop environment names. > > a desktop environment UX can change without its name changing; or new > desktop environments, with similar UX can appear. > > checking the name of the desktop environment is going to be hopelessly > out of date, or actively wrong.
While I agree that this is ideal solution, I'm not sure we can achieve it
without getting ourselves in a quagmire. Here's a list of settings I can think
of at the top of my head:
- widget style & colour palette
- icon theme
- order of Ok / Cancel buttons
- file dialog to use
- wallet to use (until secret services comes along)
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