On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 12:18 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 03/29/2012 12:09 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> By no means:
>
> 1) It *is* a kludge and is clearly brittle e.g. Chrome makes certain
> choices based on the desktop environment, such as which password store
> to use. Forcing it to think it's in Gnome when it really isn't means
> these factors also need to be worked around.
>
> 2) The kludge happens to work for Chrome because the latter is a GTK
> app. It's not a general solution.
>
> 3) It took a lot of effort to find, i.e. the "solution" is not easily
> discoverable, and in fact works by *not* using anything in the KDE
> environment. My original comment about this being too hard still stands.
So, you will file a bugzilla with the Chrome folks, right? :-)
Once again, this is not a problem with Chrome! The particular kludge
happens to work with Chrome, but it's not a general solution to the
problem of setting a protocol handler in KDE.
I will consider filing a BZ with KDE though.
With FF, the solution is to edit their settings in about:config,
right? It somehow
knew about "transmission" but not about "ktorrent" so the
"fix" (I believe) would
have to go there.
In fact both KDE and Gnome are supposed to use the XDG standard for
making these decisions, which in Fedora is expressed through a bunch of
Shell scripts (look for /usr/bin/xdg-*). The browsers have their own
mechanisms as well, but as we've seen they don't necessarily mesh well
with the DE. Maybe the division of responsibilities isn't clear enough,
I don't really know.
Whose effort found the solution? :-) :-)
I appreciate your efforts Ed, but I hope you'll understand that IMHO
even a working kludge is not the same as a solution.
Cheers
poc