Karl DeBisschop (kdebisschop(a)alert.infoplease.com) said:
Are there alternatives to alternatives?
While I agree that it has some real shortcomings, there are also
shortcomings to having the user-land equivalents be totally divorced
from alternatives. There are also shortcomings to having the KDE and
Gnome equivalents be divorced from each other and having to set default
browsers in both.
That should be handled by better desktop interoperation, not wrapping
everything in a forest of symlinks, IMO; take, for example, a unified
MIME system.
Bill