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A default desktop for openSUSE?

A default desktop for openSUSE?

Posted Aug 5, 2009 21:43 UTC (Wed) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164)
In reply to: A default desktop for openSUSE? by Tara_Li
Parent article: A default desktop for openSUSE?

I remember Debian having a few things in that area, where you can set some
variables and stuff. The XDG tools are similar in that regard.

And KDE has offered a 'default applications' SystemSettings module where
you can set your preferred email client, text editor, file manager, IM
app, terminal, web browser and window manager (!) for years. Maybe it
could be expanded upon, and become a cross-desktop thingie ;-)

Either way, this kind of functionality (together with things like the
SystemSettings module where you can set the GTK theme and colors and the
GTK-Qt theme engine) makes it relatively easy to switch certain KDE stuff
for something else and integrate GTK apps a bit. I'm sure distro's like
Mandriva (which isn't a KDE distro imo, but more a 'best of both worlds')
appreciate this kind of stuff. Unfortunately there isn't much in that area
on the GNOME side, but Qt does know how to reverse it's button order when
ran in GNOME and supports the glib event loop for GTK written plugins
these days so integration should be easier than it once was.

I guess we just have to wait for someone or some organization to push this
further, also in GNOME.


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