On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
Excerpts from Nilesh Govindarajan's message of 2010-06-14 18:28:24 +0200:
On 06/14/2010 09:07 PM, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
Excerpts from Nilesh Govindarajan's message of 2010-06-14 17:09:26 +0200:
I am a full time KDE user and I don't have GNOME or its libraries. Firefox and Thunderbird keep asking me to choose applications to open .pdf, .doc, .xls, http://, etc. Is there no package which can fix the file associations for FF and TB ?
That's likely some xdg stuff. It usually works using gnome, KDE and xfce but nothing else. KDE probably has some preferences thing somewhere, otherwise you're pretty much as f..... as everyone who doesn't use a big DE. Hurray for 'Desktop Integration'..
I don't think so. xdg-settings --list gives on default-web-browser.
You can't use xdg-settings when you don't have one of the major DEs running, xdg-open falls back to a hardcoded array of browsers in that case. It's all quite awkward if you don't use gnome, kde or xfce. I know, doesn't really help with your problem..
I found thunderbird asking me for a program to execute for links. Pointed it to the right program and told it to remember. Never asked again. I wouldn't know where to change it if I ever wanted, but it's been working so far, and I don't use a DE. --- Michishige Kaito BOFH excuse #261: The Usenet news is out of date