Comment 23 for bug 482501

I agree with your sentiment, Stefan. Although I am a long time Linux user, I tire when I have to deal with issues like this. Especially when they change from one distribution to the next.

We can try to pretend that making someone edit a text file buried somewhere in /etc is a way an acceptable way to change a default behavior, but for the rest of the world, it's a joke. Situations like this are why the year that Linux will take over the desktop is *always* next year.

If we ever as a group wish to see Linux adopted on the desktop, we need more top-down SYSTEM LEVEL design, not component-level design where each component is sub-optimized at the expense of the system as a whole.

But I digress.