On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, David Faure wrote:
> In the last discussion about it we (especially Preston, Torben and I, IIRC)
> decided that before the user configures anything (using filetypes),
> the preferred service would be arbitrarily chosen from the installed services.
> 
> Result : for text/plain, the default gets set to gvim instead of kedit 
> or write ! (for those who have gvim installed, found by kappfinder)
> 
> It works as we said, but do we really want to ship a desktop whose default
> action for text files is opening the ugly, non-user-friendly-at-all gvim ? :-)
> 
> I see no other solution that what I suggested long ago : a preference number
> IN the application desktop file, serving as default (overriden by the 
> user's profile).

Actually this is how the mimetypes file works. There the preference is
the order in the file, but nevertheless it is there.

I think there is no other good solution possible.
Well, a simple is_default boolean switch would be possible also.
But a preference number is better, as the switch breaks if you remove the
default desktop file.

--Stefan