Bug 219331

Summary:	Firefox is associated with Evolution in KDE
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2	Reporter:	John Martin <johnelliottmartin>
Component:	GNOME	Assignee:	E-mail List <gnome-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	wolfgang
Version:	Beta 1
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Hardware:	Other
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Description John Martin 2006-11-09 08:28:15 UTC

Currently firefox associates mailto links with Evolution instead of Kmail when using KDE. This can be changed with the network.protocol-handler.app.mailto config option being set to kmail. Would it be possible to make this a default for KDE installs?

Comment 1 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2006-11-09 09:39:04 UTC

I wouldn't recommend to do so.
Firefox gets its association through gconf and gnome-vfs.
As those are gnome centric the favourite application for mailto is Evolution. It probably possible to fix it manually by using gconf-editor.

For a generic approach Gnome and KDE people have to sort out how to solve it IMHO.

Comment 2 Justin Haygood 2007-02-14 19:39:31 UTC

Doesn't OpenSUSE 10.2 ship with xdg-email, et. al? Wouldn't that do the trick? IMO, applications should honor the default applications in the current desktop environment for things regardless of the native desktop environment for the program.

Comment 3 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2007-09-26 07:52:43 UTC

xdg-email is available. It's a task for gnome-maintainers to decide to use xdg-mail instead of evolution as default mailto-handler in gconf.

Comment 4 JP Rosevear 2007-11-14 18:59:27 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 113512 ***