Bug#583294: gnome-control-center: gnome-default-applications-properties should update-alternatives?

[Mark Hedges]

On Thu, 27 May 2010, Josselin Mouette wrote:
>
> Epiphany advertises itself just like Safari, so those
> blocking it are also blocking macs.
>

Possibly true, and your ire justified.  However, in Debian,
it might not make sense to then block other applications
that are not native to macs.  I don't think your preference
for one operating system (that is not Debian) should prevent
you from creating a system control panel that sets
preferences for other prior apps not from that system.
Since Debian is open to ports from other architectures, and
legacy terminal applications (alpine, in my case), I'm not
sure you can expect all the developers of those different
markets to conform to a minority market standard.  It sounds
a lot like Microsoft... or a microsoft wannabe who resells
stuff that is already free.

I am just suggesting, since I am the only person who uses my
computer, it would be nice to have a checkbox to apply the
same choices to the system by running update-alternatives
with gksu.  As an average user, I was confused why changing
the system preferences didn't change the system preferences.

Mark