[ale] default settings

Jay Lozier jslozier at gmail.com
Sat Mar 29 18:41:02 EDT 2014


On 03/29/2014 06:32 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
> The desktop decides what application is the default. The browser also 
> has a default app setting.
> Nothing wrong with uninstalling the thing !
>
Check for a MIME type editor in the distro and you can set default 
program for each file type. User selected defaults are not overwritten.

> On Mar 29, 2014 10:57 AM, "Sean Kilpatrick" <kilpatms at gmail.com 
> <mailto:kilpatms at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     In order to deal with the GA tax forms I had to give up and
>     download and install Adobe's PDF reader.
>
>     Much to my surprise it set itself as the default pdf reader. WTF?
>
>     I did not want that. I don't trust Adobe to get security right.
>
>     Is it possible to wall off the default linkage of file types to
>     applications so this kind of thing doesn't happen again?
>
>     Sean
>
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