On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 12:18:30AM +1100, Andrew Lau wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:09:31PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: > > gedit comes with a gnome-text-editor alternative. (I don't know of > > anything else which uses gnome-text-editor, though. It was > > originally a hardcoded symlink that I made into an alternative when > > I debianised gedit.) > > But the whole purpose of the "gnome-edit" wrapper was to call the > preferred editor as selected in the GNOME Control Centre, well at > least in GNOME 1.x before it mysteriously disappeared in the GNOME 2.0 > packages. It would be counter-intuitive to make users use Debian's > alternatives system when they believe the option has already been > configured within the desktop environment itself.
With Gnome 2, i guess this is the new way you should do things. After all, look at how you choose a windows manager, you use debian alternatives. Friendly, Sven Luther
