From kde-core-devel Thu Nov 04 14:59:02 1999 From: David Faure Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 14:59:02 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: RE: KServiceTypeProfile broken? X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=94172777918561 > 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. Like the first one in alphabetical order ? Yes, makes sense. Almost random but at least predictable. -- David Faure faure@kde.org - KDE developer david@mandrakesoft.com - Mandrake david.faure@cramersystems.com - Cramer Systems