On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 21:17 +0100, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote:
On 07/13/2010 08:57 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 20:15 +0100, n2xssvv.g02gfr12930 wrote:
>> To setup Thunderbird 3 to open Firefox for web links, and Firefox to
>> open Thunderbird for email links I have to use the default applications
>> setup provided by Gnome, the KDE one doesn't work. Surely there's got
to
>> be an easier way to do this from KDE! I've not found one yet.
>
> Thunderbird and Firefox are GTK apps, not QT ones, so you have to modify
> the Gnome environment and not the KDE one. That's the way it is unless
> someone releases alternate versions.
>
> poc
>
As I well know, but what happens if a user doesn't have Gnome installed?
How can they change the required settings easily? These can get broken
by updates amongst other things, so IMHO this could be a right nuisance.
Without the Gnome libraries, the above apps won't run. The user doesn't
need to run the full desktop but they do need gnome-control-center or at
least gconf-editor to be able to change the configuration.
Perhaps Fedora advises users to use an internet browser and email
client
designed for their preferred GUI then, which IMHO basically sucks.
Fedora is strongly Gnome-oriented, though it does support other DEs
quite well (including KDE which I use).
poc