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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    RE: KServiceTypeProfile broken?
From:       David Faure <David.Faure () cramersystems ! com>
Date:       1999-11-04 14:59:02
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> 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

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