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

[Madhurya Kakati]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists at itech7.com> wrote:
> On 06/15/2010 03:23 AM, 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..
>
> Have you read the first line of my post properly ? I said I am a 100% KDE
> user.
>
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tried system settings? the file associations there i guess.