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

[Nilesh Govindarajan]

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.

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