FC5 Firefox and KMail

[Claude Jones]

On Sat August 5 2006 3:07 pm, Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Saturday 05 August 2006 21:08, Claude Jones wrote:
> > On Sat August 5 2006 12:03 pm, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > > As "Preferred Applications" is no longer is on KDE's menu,
> > > it appears the only way to change the default for the mail
> > > agent, is to logout of KDE, log back in to Gnome
> >
> > Nigel: This is not true. See my earlier post. From a user
> > command prompt in KDE, just run
> > "gnome-default-applications-properties" -
>
> Point taken, but you have to know that command to use it,
> whereas "Preferred Applications" that was on KDEs menu was
> pretty much self explanatory, and still doesn't make sense why
> it was removed.
>

Well, I don't remember that menu item, and I've used KDE for as 
long as I've used Linux, but that doesn't mean it didn't exist - 
I'm perfectly capable of glossing over something many times 
before noticing it. I'm just wondering if you're possibly 
thinking of the "KDE Components" item, which can be accessed 
via "KDE Menu button/Settings/KDE Components" or alternatively, 
through KDE's Control Center - there's a preferred email client 
selection in there, but it won't accomplish what the OP desired, 
which is to make 'mailto:'s in Firefox pop a kmail window. Even 
in a KDE desktop environment, there appears to still be some 
things controlled by gnome settings, which has to do with the 
Fedora project's baseline preferred way of doing things. 

-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, Md, USA