[arch-general] File Associations for firefox & thunderbird :)^

[Philipp Überbacher]

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'..
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Regards,
Philipp

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