The default application is likewise sad and unintuitive.

What is more, a major reason that default applications are a problem is that Windows makes changing such defaults mind-numbingly complicated.

The policy is a declaration of restraint, promising that henceforth each program will do three things: *Ask the user for permission before becoming a default application.

For the most part, default applications are a great convenience because they allow you to open a file by simply clicking on it.

Within Finder each file will be identified with a UTI and open with the default application for that type.

Mozilla's Thunderbird mail client has replaced Evolution as Ubuntu's default e-mail application.

Version 11.10 introduces a particularly significant change to Ubuntu's default application stack.

If that application is not installed, then the file should be opened by the default application assigned to that file type.

Day 3: One level of user interaction with the default applications.

It replaced the default applications of a standard Ubuntu install with lighter alternatives.