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[Pedro Villavicencio <pedro@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need
to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments.
Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't
hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report
you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change
the Status back to "New". Thanks again!


** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/651264

Title:
  Applications fight over "preferred" status

Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

  Although there is an explicit setting in gnome-default-applications-
  properties for the user to choose her or his preferred applications,
  some such applications keep asking the user directly to change this
  setting.

  E.g. evolution and thunderbird would ask the user to change the
  "preferred" mail client setting to themselves, as do firefox and
  chromium for the web browser. See screenshot as an example. If you
  switch applications, applications would begin to fight over the
  "preferred" status again and again unless you tell them not to do so.

  IMHO, this is a usability issue and should not happen.

  An applications should not change this setting on its own, even if it
  asked the user before doing this.

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