From kde-core-devel  Thu Nov 04 14:51:06 1999
From: pbrown () redhat ! com
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 14:51:06 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: RE: KServiceTypeProfile broken?
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=94172707917303

On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, weis wrote:

> No no, please not :-) Do you know the star office decease ?
> They install their KDE .kdelnk files and suddenly all kind of
> mimetypes is associated with StartOffice. Therefore I suggest something
> else: If the user requests a preferred service for some mimetype for
> the first time and there is no preference, then we choose one by random
> and save it as the preferred one. Wether that is the prefect solution
> we can not know, but at least it makes shure that after installing new
> software still the same app pops up as before!

I don't mind picking one _arbitrarily_, but _randomly_ will be a support
nightmare.

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  Preston Brown                                    Systems Engineer
  pbrown@redhat.com                                Red Hat, Inc.